Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.
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Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.William James
There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.
William James
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
William James
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
William James
When we of the so-called better classes are scared as men were never scared in history at material ugliness and hardship when we put off marriage until our house can be artistic, and quake at the thought of having a child without a bank-account and doomed to manual labor, it is time for thinking men to protest against so unmanly and irreligious a state of opinion.
William James
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