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William James
American
January 11, 1842
Philosopher
Time itself comes in drops.
William James
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Time
Itself
Drops
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
William James
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Change
Life
Start
To spend life for something which outlasts it.
William James
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Life
Something
Which
Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.
William James
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Happiness
Without
May
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
William James
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Life
Living
Worth
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
William James
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Being
Art
Knowing
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
William James
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Faith
Something
Which
The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.
William James
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Our
Any
May
Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
William James
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Any
First
Happened
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
William James
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Sympathy
Without
Away
We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.
William James
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Truth
Get
Live
If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
William James
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Good
Experience
Would
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
William James
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Good
Education
You
Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.
William James
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Knowledge
About
Life
It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.
William James
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Age
Like
Will
Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.
William James
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More
Would
Will
Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.
William James
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More
Really
Will
Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.
William James
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You
Than
Would
Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.
William James
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About
Our
Different
No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.
William James
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Good
How
Every
Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.
William James
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Work
World
Which
