A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
WILLIAM JAMESWe want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
More William James Quotes
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Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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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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Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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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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As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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