As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
WILLIAM JAMESWe hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Individuality is founded in feeling
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With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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