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The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.

William James

So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
WILLIAM JAMES

Anticipation Brave Use
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Anything Dream Everything May
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Educational Memories Philosophy
The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Briefly Thinking True Way
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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Art Life Positive
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
WILLIAM JAMES

Mind Philosophy Quiet
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
WILLIAM JAMES

Agents Ordinance Uprising Wheels

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