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Small Quotes by William James
- All of our life is but a mass of small habits - practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual - that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
- To begin with our knowledge grows in spots. ..What you first gain, ... is probably a small amount of new information, a few new definitions,…
- Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
- Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make very small use of their possible…
- Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and…
- Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
- Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. Our fires are damped, our drafts are checked. We are making use of…
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- Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast. — William Shakespeare
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- I don't even have voice mail or answering machines anymore. I hate the phone, and I don't want to call anybody back.… — Drew Barrymore
- When Whitney Houston died, I felt great sadness. My sadness, of course, was about our collective loss - when you listened to… — James Belushi
- Prayer in the sense of petition, asking for things, is a small part of it; confession and penitence are its threshold, adoration… — C.S. Lewis
- We are much harder on people who betray us in small ways than on people who betray others in great ones. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- Even those to whom Providence has allotted greater strength of understanding, can expect only to improve a single science. In every other… — Samuel Johnson