Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
WILLIAM JAMESSo our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Time itself comes in drops.
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Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Individuality is founded in feeling
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A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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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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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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