Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
WILLIAM JAMESThe teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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New habits can be launched.
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Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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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 prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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