You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
WILLIAM JAMESA new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
More William James Quotes
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So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Individuality is founded in feeling
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We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Time itself comes in drops.
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No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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The strenuous life tastes better
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A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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