Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
WILLIAM JAMESIndividuality is founded in feeling
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Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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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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The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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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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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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The strenuous life tastes better
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Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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