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Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.

William James

Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
Time itself comes in drops.
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Come Drop Philosophical Itself
The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Devil Feet Long
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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Example Human Nature Proud
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Educational Inspirational Philosophy
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Opposites Statement Truth
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Men Philosophical Philosophy
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking

Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.

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