Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
WILLIAM JAMESIn the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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All religions begin with the cry Help.
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A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Time itself comes in drops.
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The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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