There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
WILLIAM JAMESWe hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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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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Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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