He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
WILLIAM JAMESEverybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
More William James Quotes
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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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Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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History is a bath of blood.
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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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To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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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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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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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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