Time itself comes in drops.
WILLIAM JAMESMankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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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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