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Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power. - William James

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power. – William James

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The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioning our characters in the wrong way. – William James

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Hell
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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is mans lack of faith in his true Self. – William James

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Failure
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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

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good
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The power which establishes a state is violence the power which maintains it is violence the power which eventually overthrows it is violence. – Kenneth Kaunda

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But the lovers power is the poets power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung. – Amelia Barr

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A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it. – Jean Rostand

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The greatness of a mans power is the measure of his surrender. – William Booth

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The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail. – Stephen Gardiner

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