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  • We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort. We postpone and postpone until those smiling possibilities are dead... By neglecting the necessary concrete labor, by sparing ourselves the little daily tax, we are positively digging the graves of our higher possibilities.

    William James (2008). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.62, Nuvision Pubns