In business for yourself, not by yourself.
WILLIAM JAMESTo give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
More William James Quotes
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A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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History is a bath of blood.
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Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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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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A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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