Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
WILLIAM JAMESPhilosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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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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The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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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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