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If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

William James

We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
WILLIAM JAMES

Attitude Circumstances Mere
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
WILLIAM JAMES

Business Inspirational Philosophical
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
WILLIAM JAMES

Men Parts Small Use
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
WILLIAM JAMES

Happiness Music Philosophical
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Happiness Laughter Men
A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Men Philosophy Social
The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Devil Feet Long
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
WILLIAM JAMES

Civilization Class Fear
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.
WILLIAM JAMES

Islands Roots Sea Underground
Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Heroism Reality Theatre
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
WILLIAM JAMES

Evil Healthy Individual

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