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It’s one of the strangest laws of our nature that many things which we are well satisfied with within ourselves, disgust us when seen in others.
The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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, American philosopher and psychologist (I found one, but they were all so good I couldn’t post just one)