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William James

With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Cases Matter Philosophical
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
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Growth Men Years
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Opposites Statement Truth
It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Art Force Process
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Allies Education Enemy
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind

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