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I don't sing because I'm happy I'm happy because I sing.

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William James
Age: 68 †
Born: 1842
Born: January 11
Died: 1910
Died: August 26
Philosopher
Physician
Psychologist
University Teacher
W. James
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It is only the fundamental conceptions of psychology which are of real value to a teacher.
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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Act the part and you will become the part.
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Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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No reception without reaction, no impression without correlative expression, -this is the great maxim which the teacher ought never to forget.
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The same is true of Love, and the instinctive desire to please those whom we love. The teacher who succeeds in getting herself loved by the pupils will obtain results which one of a more forbidding temperament finds it impossible to secure.
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.
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We believe as much as we can. We would believe everything if we could.
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In this real world of sweat and dirt, it seems to me that when a view of things is 'noble,' that ought to count as presumption against its truth, and as a philosophic disqualification. The prince of darkness may be a gentleman, as we are told he is, but whatever the God of earth and heaven is, he can surely be no gentleman.
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For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Results should not be too voluntarily aimed at or too busily thought of. They are sure to float up of their own accord from a long enough daily work at a given matter.
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In my individual heart I fully believe my faith is as robust as yours. The trouble with your robust and full bodied faiths, however, is, that they begin to cut each others throats too soon, and for getting on in the world and establishing a modus vivendi these pestilential refinements and reasonablenesses and moderations have to creep in.
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... I am the same personal being who in old times upon the Earth had those experiences.
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Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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With no attempt there can be no failure with no failure no humiliation.
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Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
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Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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