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When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.

William James

Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational
I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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Believe Ideas Truth
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Educational Inspirational Philosophy
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Differences Important Personality
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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All Fields Instant Time
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Encouragement Encouraging Inspirational
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical

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