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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

Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Becoming Gone Instant
We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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Example Human Nature Proud
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Math Passion Union
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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Believe Ideas Truth
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Best Effort Forget Hard Work
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
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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Culture Life Real
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts

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