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Back Quotes by William James
- A genius is the man in whom you are least likely to find the power of attending to anything insipid or distasteful in itself. He…
- The faculty of voluntarily bringing back a wandering attention, over and over again, is the very root of judgment, character, and will... An education which…
- It is only in the lonely emergencies of life that our creed is tested: then routine maxims fail, and we fall back on our gods.
- How can the moribund old man reason back to himself the romance, the mystery, the imminence of great things with which our old earth tingled…
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