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Hours Quotes by William James
- 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…
- Let no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education, whatever the line of it may be. If he keep faithfully busy each…
- It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an…
- The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by…
- One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental…
- Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it…
- It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
- Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us; our hour of triumph is what brings the void.
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- Grief makes one hour ten. — William Shakespeare
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- My superpower is watching five hours of TV I'm not interested in because I can't reach the remote. — Nikhil Saluja
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong
- Wilson was once asked how long it took him to write a speech. He answered, 'That depends. If I am to speak… — Woodrow Wilson
- The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible; yet, by… — Charles Babbage
- Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not… — P T Barnum
- Do you know that the words meditation and medicine come from the same root? Meditation is a kind of medicine; its use… — Rajneesh