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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

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William James
Age: 68 †
Born: 1842
Born: January 11
Died: 1910
Died: August 26
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Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make very small use of their possible consciousness, and of their soul's resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole bodily organism, should get into a habit of using and moving only his little finger.
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Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Truth is what will be steadily borne out by subsequent experience
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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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