Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Our colleges ought to have lit up in us a lasting relish for the better kind of man, a loss of appetite for mediocrities.William James
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
William James
Hardly ever can a youth transferred to the society of his betters unlearn the nasality and other vices of speech bred in him by the associations of his growing years. Hardly ever, indeed, no matter how much money there be in his pocket, can he ever learn.
William James
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
William James
Action and feeling go together and by regulating the action which is under the more direct control of the will, we can regulate the feeling, which is not.
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