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 JAMESWe never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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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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We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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History is a bath of blood.
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The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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