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Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.

William James

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
WILLIAM JAMES

Clever Motivational Procrastination
Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Men Mind Way
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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Art Men Philosophy
So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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Anticipation Brave Use
It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Art Force Process
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Civilization Class Fear
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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Finals Lasts Men
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men

Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.

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