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Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
William JamesWilliam James Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
William JamesWilliam James New habits can be launched.
William JamesWilliam James It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
William JamesWilliam James A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
William JamesWilliam James Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
William JamesWilliam James In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
William JamesWilliam James We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
William JamesWilliam James The education of attention would be an education par excellence
William JamesWilliam James The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
William JamesWilliam James An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
William JamesWilliam James It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
William JamesWilliam James One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
William JamesWilliam James I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
William JamesWilliam James The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
William JamesWilliam James That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Robert GravesRobert Graves The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful.
A.J. AyerA.J. Ayer This seems to me a philosophical question, and therefore irrelevant, question. A poet’s destiny is to love.
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