A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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More William James Quotes
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The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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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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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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Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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History is a bath of blood.
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