Blessed Quote by William James Download Open image “To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.” — William James ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Blessed Deception Free speech Giving Giving up Internet Pretension Relief
We recipients of the boon of liberty have always been ready, when faced with discomfort, to discard any and all first principles of liberty,… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Those who expect to reap the blessing of freedom must undertake to support it. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Then I start talking about the obvious benefits of the precept. If everyone adopted that quote as his or her own personal precept, I… — R.J. Palacio Copy Share Image
Communities now find themselves in possession of improvements [resulting from the WPA] which even in 1929 they would have thought themselves presumptuous to dream of... [but] everywhere there had been an overhauling of the word presumptuous. We are beginning to wonder if it is not presumptuous to take for granted that some people should have much, and some should have… — Harry Hopkins Copy Share
To take for granted one's blessings is a damage to the soul, and in time one will lose them, simply from lack of care.… — Anne Perry Copy Share Image
Our cause is just. Our union is perfect. ... With hearts fortified ... we most solemnly, before God and the world, declare that... we… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
[It is not the purpose nor right of Congress] to attend to what generosity and humanity require, but to what the Constitution and their… — William Branch Giles Copy Share Image
The core values of our constitution are at the heart of our nation's progress. — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world. — William James Copy Share Image
We are all potentially such sick men. The sanest and best of us are of one clay with lunatics and prison-inmates. And whenever we feel this, such a sense of the vanity of our voluntary career comes over us, that all our morality appears but as a plaster hiding a sore it can never cure, and all our well-doing as… — William James Copy Share
In the dim background of our mind we know meanwhile what we ought to be doing: getting up, dressing ourselves, answering the person who… — William James Copy Share Image
“Our minds thus grow in spots; and like grease-spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible: we keep unaltered as much of our old knowledge, as many of our old prejudices and belief, as we can. We patch and tinker more than we renew. The novelty soaks in; it stains the ancient mass; but it… — William James Copy Share
Woe to him whose beliefs play fast and loose with the order which realities follow in his experience; they will lead him nowhere or… — William James Copy Share Image
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be. — William James Copy Share Image
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. — William James Copy Share Image
Most people, probably, are in doubt about certain matters ascribed to their past. They may have seen them, may have said them, done them,… — William James Copy Share Image
“How soon, indeed, are human things forgotten! As we meet here this morning, the Southern sun is shining on their place of burial, and the waves sparkling and the sea-gulls circling around Fort Wagner's ancient site. But the great earthworks and their thundering cannon, the commanders and their followers, the wild assault and repulse that for a brief space made… — William James Copy Share
And I have been very blessed, having coached some of the greatest that have ever played the game. But if I had to start… — Red Auerbach Copy Share Image
I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still blessed with the opportunity to make music and pass out a message like, 'Life is good,' to the world. — Nas Copy Share
Peace is the first thing the angels sang. Peace is the mark of the children of God. Peace is the nurse of love. Peace… — Pope Leo I Copy Share Image
As in any machine, all the wires must be connected to the mains through one main wire. In the same way, you all must… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
I had a very blessed journey with the upbringing I had. When you're working on sets as a stuntman, you have a firsthand account… — Ric Roman Waugh Copy Share Image
All the dangers in our world are like a blessed wake up call. They tell us to live life NOW... not tomorrow, not when… — Susan Jeffers Copy Share Image
Of course the Dharma-body of the Buddha was the hedge at the bottom of the garden. At the same time, and no less obviously,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I feel that I'm very blessed. But with great blessings come great responsibility. — Kanye West Copy Share Image
Benny Carter came up to me and said to me, "You know, in the whole history of the alto, I think Phil is the… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
I feel as if I have been blessed to undergo a transformation from 'gangster' to 'redeemed sinner with gangster proclivities.' — Cornel West Copy Share Image
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