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Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.

William James

No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
WILLIAM JAMES

Bells Tolls Truth
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
WILLIAM JAMES

Encouraging Life Positive
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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Best Cute Friendship Friend Quality
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
WILLIAM JAMES

Good Hell Intention Intentions
Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Cases Matter Philosophical
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 aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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Die Education Philosophical
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Determine Feelings May
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
WILLIAM JAMES

Men Responsibility Stronger
Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Heroism Reality Theatre
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Devil Feet Long

Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.

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