Quote by William James
Individuality is founded in feeling and the recesses of feeling, t

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

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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

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Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment. – Dale Carnegie

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Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction. – Anne Frank

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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety. – Jane Austen

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Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. – Stephen Hawking

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So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it. – Harold Acton, Memoirs of an Aesthete, 1948

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