The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
WILLIAM JAMESProcrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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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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Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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