Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
WILLIAM JAMESThe question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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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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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Truth happens to an idea
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There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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New habits can be launched.
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