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Before Quotes by William James
- If an unusual necessity forces us onward, a surprising thing occurs. The fatigue gets worse up to a certain point, when, gradually or suddenly, it…
- The first effect of the mind growing cultivated is that processes once multiple get to be performed in a single act. Lazarus has called this…
- When two minds of a high order, interested in kindred subjects, come together, their conversation is chiefly remarkable for the summariness of its allusions and…
- Faith branches off the highroad before reason begins
- Cramming seeks to stamp things in by intense application immediately before the ordeal. But a thing thus learned can form but few associations.
- The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
- Whilst part of what we perceive comes through our senses from the object before us, another part (and it may be the larger part) always…
- There are two lives, the natural and the spiritual, and we must lose the one before we can participate in the other.
- If you say that this is absurd, that we cannot be in love with everyone at once, I merely point out to you that, as…
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