Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
WILLIAM JAMESThere can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
More William James Quotes
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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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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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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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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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To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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All religions begin with the cry Help.
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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.
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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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