We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
WILLIAM JAMESMost people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Truth happens to an idea
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If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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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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To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Time itself comes in drops.
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We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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