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Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.

William James

We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
WILLIAM JAMES

Best Effort Forget Hard Work
Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
WILLIAM JAMES

Beast Kind Men
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
WILLIAM JAMES

Educational Inspirational Philosophy
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Mind Peculiar Self
A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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Meaningful Motivational Perseverance
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
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
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
WILLIAM JAMES

Attend Moments Reality
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
WILLIAM JAMES

Happiness Music Philosophical
We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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Islands Roots Sea Underground
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Mean Reality Truth
You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
WILLIAM JAMES

Anything Dream Everything May
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
WILLIAM JAMES

Character Circumstances Enough Repeated

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