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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.

William James

The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Political Volunteer War
Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Determine Feelings May
Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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Flux Names Reflection
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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Evil Prove Ruling
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Pay Quality Supreme
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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Facts Philosophy Way
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Civilization Class Fear
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
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
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Best Effort Forget Hard Work

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.

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