We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. E…

William James
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We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never so little scar. ...Nothing we ever do is, in strict scientific literalness, wiped out. ✨ The Principles of Psychology. Book by William James, 1890.
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We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never so little scar. ...Nothing we ever do is, in strict scientific literalness, wiped out. ✨ The Principles of Psychology. Book by William James, 1890.

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