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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
William James
Art
Being
Knowing
Overlook
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A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
William James
Great
Many
Merely
People
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To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
William James
Abnormal
Best
Best Way
Normal
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The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James
Before
Gained
Ideas
Lives
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William James
Begin
Hereafter
Now
Will
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Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you
Walt Whitman
Always
Behind
Face
Sunshine
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Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
William James
Faculty
Genius
Little
Means
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Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle
Walt Whitman
Each
Hearing
Me
Miracles
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If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.
William James
Another
Bad
Believe
Change
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After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains
Walt Whitman
Business
Finally
Found
Nature
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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
William James
Appreciated
Craving
Deepest
Human
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I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
Walt Whitman
Bad
Best
God
Good
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Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
William James
Acceptance
Any
Consequences
First
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Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?
Walt Whitman
Contain
Enough
Forever
Me
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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 the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.
William James
Alcohol
Cold
Criticisms
Crushed
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The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
William James
Away
Community
Impulse
Sympathy
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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 demon of uncharitable feeling.
William James
Both
Both Sides
Bring
Closer
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The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.
Walt Whitman
Single
Individual
Theory
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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 uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.
William James
Another
Beforehand
Come
Enough
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The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.
Walt Whitman
Beauty
Departure
Independence
Rely
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Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.
William James
Behalf
Caution
Certain
Errors
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I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences
Walt Whitman
Anywhere
Art
Been
Beyond
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I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game
Walt Whitman
American
Baseball
Game
Great
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Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.
William James
About
Call
Consciousness
Different
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A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
Walt Whitman
Me
Metaphysics
More
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Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.
William James
Action
Control
Direct
Feeling
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Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed
Walt Whitman
Beautiful
Flowers
Garden
Give
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It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
William James
Affect
Anything
AnythingElse
Attitude
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William James
Actual
Belief
Creates
Fact
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I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
Walt Whitman
Believe
Leaf
Less
Stars
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We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
William James
Bad
Bad One
Between
Cause
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It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.
William James
Again
Age
Character
Like
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Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.
Walt Whitman
Always
Far
History
Judging
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No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.
William James
Act
Advantage
Better
Character
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To have great poets, there must be great audiences.
Walt Whitman
Audiences
Great
Must
Poets
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The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.
William James
Accommodate
Business
Cannot
Convenience
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Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes
Walt Whitman
ContainContradict
Large
Multitudes
Myself
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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.
William James
Cause
Failure
Faith
His
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To me, every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle
Walt Whitman
Hour
Me
Miracle
Night
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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
William James
Belief
Concerning
Doubt
Faith
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Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.
Walt Whitman
AiBest
Earth
Eat
Grow
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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
William James
Always
Anything
Believe
Everyone
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The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.
Walt Whitman
Every
Law
Contrary
Potent
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Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
William James
Case
Else
Faith
Greatest
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When I give I give myself.
Walt Whitman
Give
Myself
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Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.
Walt Whitman
Satisfies
Soul
Truth
Whatever
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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
William James
Eternal
Hanging
Nothing
Task
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The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.
Walt Whitman
Always
Ambassador
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Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.
William James
Actually
Catch
Character
Darker
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An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.
William James
Come
Force
Idea
Individual
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