It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
WILLIAM JAMESA man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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Individuality is founded in feeling
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Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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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 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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Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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