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Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.

William James

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.
WILLIAM JAMES

Best Cute Friendship Friend Quality
It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
WILLIAM JAMES

Art Force Process
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
WILLIAM JAMES

Asceticism Ease Expression
Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
WILLIAM JAMES

Basketball Dream Perseverance
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
WILLIAM JAMES

Facts Models Role Virtue
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
WILLIAM JAMES

Life Stay Strong Ties
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
WILLIAM JAMES

God Principles Theism
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
WILLIAM JAMES

Art Life Positive
Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
WILLIAM JAMES

Evil Prove Ruling
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
WILLIAM JAMES

Law Science Together
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
WILLIAM JAMES

Attention Belief Facts
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
WILLIAM JAMES

Men Responsibility Stronger
We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
WILLIAM JAMES

Example Human Nature Proud
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
WILLIAM JAMES

Imperfect Language Mean

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