Quote by William James
The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is noninterfer

The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is noninterference with their own peculiar ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume to interfere by violence with ours. – William James

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Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it. – William James

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Worth
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A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. – William James

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great
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We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood. – William James

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Wise Words
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Self-pity is… a sinkhole from which no rescuing hand can drag you because you have chosen to sink. – Elizabeth Elliot

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The minute a phrase becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Every man expects some miracle — either from his mind or from his body or from someone else or from events. – Paul Valéry

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Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals, 1834

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter. – William James

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Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy. – Fiona Shaw

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The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends. – Shirley MacLaine

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