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We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.

William James

There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
WILLIAM JAMES

Business Inspirational Philosophical
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Encouragement Encouraging Inspirational
The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Able Accompanying Thinking
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Facts Models Role Virtue
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Briefly Thinking True Way
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Community Friendship Sympathy
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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Islands Roots Sea Underground
Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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Flux Names Reflection
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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Example Human Nature Proud
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Cash Experience Stream

We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.

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