Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
WILLIAM JAMESTime itself comes in drops.
More William James Quotes
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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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A 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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All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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