We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
WILLIAM JAMESThe most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
More William James Quotes
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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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The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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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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A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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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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Time itself comes in drops.
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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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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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The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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