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No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
William James
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William James
Age: 68 †
Born: 1842
Born: January 11
Died: 1910
Died: August 26
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The exercise of prayer, in those who habitually exert it, must be regarded by us doctors as the most adequate and normal of all the pacifiers of the mind and calmers of the nerves.
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Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.
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Formula to live your dream: 1. Be bold. 2. Begin now, 3. No exceptions.
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The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
William James
Equality is attainable as long as you are part of the majority.
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Divinity lies all around us, but society remains too hidebound to accept that fact...The mother sea and the fountain-head of all religions lies in the mystical experiences of the individual.
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Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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When happiness is actually in possession, the thought of evil can no more acquire the feeling of reality than the thought of good can gain reality when melancholy rules. To the man actively happy, from whatever cause, evil simply cannot then and there be believed in.
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Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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But it is the bane of psychology to suppose that where results are similar, processes must be the same. Psychologists are too apt to reason as geometers would, if the latter were to say that the diameter of a circle is the same thing as its semi-circumference, because, forsooth, they terminate in the same two points.
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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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There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
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There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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