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The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.

William James

The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
WILLIAM JAMES

Country Teacher Teaching
Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
WILLIAM JAMES

Becoming Gone Instant
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
WILLIAM JAMES

Political Volunteer War
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
WILLIAM JAMES

Names Process Truth
The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
WILLIAM JAMES

Mind Peculiar Self
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
WILLIAM JAMES

Philosophical Prayer Worry
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
WILLIAM JAMES

Combine Enough Fact Facts
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
WILLIAM JAMES

Appreciated Human Nature Principles
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
WILLIAM JAMES

Inspirational Positive Success
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
WILLIAM JAMES

Encouraging Life Positive
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
WILLIAM JAMES

Growth Men Years
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
WILLIAM JAMES

Imperfect Language Mean
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
WILLIAM JAMES

Esteem Leadership Quality Self
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
WILLIAM JAMES

Effects Intellect Shows
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
WILLIAM JAMES

Credit Facts Truth
The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
WILLIAM JAMES

Devil Feet Long

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