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So far as we live and strive at all, our lives are various, are needed for the whole, and are unique.

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Our will makes constantly a sort of agreement with the world, whereby, if the world will continually show some respect to the will, the will shall consent to be strenuous in its industry.

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Interfere with the reality of my world, and you therefore take the very life and heart out of my will.

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If I look to see what I ever did that, for all I now know, some other man might not have done, I am utterly unable to discover the certainly unique deed.

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Ideas any one can mould as he wishes.

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I never felt a feeling that I knew or could know to be unlike the feelings of other people. I never consciously thought, except after patterns that the world or my fellows set for me.

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God too longs; and because the Absolute Life itself, which dwells in our life, and inspires these very longings, possesses the true world, and is that world.

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God is One, all our lives have various and unique places in the harmony of the divine life.

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For the Absolute, as we now know, all life is individual, but is individual as expressing a meaning.

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For myself, I do not now know in any concrete human terms wherein my individuality consists. In my present human form of consciousness I simply cannot tell.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Philosopher

Born: November 20th, 1855

Died: September 14th, 1916

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