With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
WILLIAM JAMESThe mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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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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As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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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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Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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