We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
WILLIAM JAMESWhere 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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No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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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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To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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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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Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Individuality is founded in feeling
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Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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