A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
WILLIAM JAMESIt is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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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.
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With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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