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Quote 3166
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.by: William JamesShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 3155
Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.by: William JamesShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 3154
If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.by: William JamesShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 3152
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.by: William JamesShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 3149
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.by: William JamesShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 3147
Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.by: William JamesShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 3140
The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.by: William JamesShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 3134
Human beings can alter their lifes by altering their attitudes of mind.by: William JamesShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 3131
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.by: William JamesShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 3130
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.by: William JamesShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 3128
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.by: William JamesShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 3119
There are two kinds of taste, the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognitionby: Henry JamesShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 3118
People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid.by: Henry JamesShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 3106
Life is a predicament which precedes death.by: Henry JamesShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 3087
Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractionsby: Albert EinsteinShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 3074
Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spendingby: Anne BradstreetShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 3068
Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of; they just turn up some of the ill weeds on to the surfaceShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 3054
You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.Showing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 3053
Every generation needs regenerationShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 3051
Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idleShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 3050
He that deserves nothing should be content with anythingShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 3041
Our misery is that we thirst so little for these sublime things, and so much for the mocking trifles of time and spaceShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 3037
It is not well to make great changes in old ageShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 3028
When the house is on fire good girls have to get out as well as the bad onesShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 3022
If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature; and the greatest of these, at least the most constant and always at hand, is natureby: John BurroughsShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 3015
I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.by: John BurroughsShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 3003
Time does not become sacred to us until we have lived itby: John BurroughsShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 3001
Life is a struggle, but not a warfareby: John BurroughsShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2998
The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend itby: John BurroughsShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2981
Man may be considered as a superior species of animal that produces philosophies and poems in about the same way a silkworm produces their cocoons and bees their hivesby: Hyppolyte TaineShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2974
The world loves a spice of wickednessShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2971
All are architects of fate, working in these walls of timeShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2969
How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams with its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of beginnings, story without end, each maid a heroine, and each man a friend!Showing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2968
The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing serviceShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2964
Youth comes but once in a lifetimeShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2962
The human voice is the organ of the soulShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2960
Not enjoyment, and not sorrow is our destined way, but to act that each tomorrow may find us further than todayShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2959
Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act, act in the living present! Heart within and God overheadShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2949
A feeling of sadness and longing that is not akin to pain, and resembles sorrow only as the mist resembles the rainShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2937
Habits wear more constantly and with greatest force than reason, which, when we have most need of it, is seldom fairly consulted, and more rarely obeyedby: John LockeShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2932
Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no timeby: John LockeShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2924
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of itby: John LockeShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2916
The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of goodby: John LockeShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2902
Some people read because they are too lazy to thinkShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2898
A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye onShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2882
Reason now gazes above the realm of the dark but warm feelings as the alpine peaks do above the clouds. They behold the sun more clearly and distinctly, but they are cold and unfruitfulShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2879
What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemploymentShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2868
I cannot stop thinking that I died before I was born and that at my death I will return to the same stateShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2864
An hour-glass is a reminder not only of time's quick flight, but also of the dust to which we must at last returnShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2853
One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from themShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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