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That which is most personal, is most interesting.

William James

All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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Destiny Military Spiritual
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Math Passion Union
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Health Love Wings
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Culture Life Real
So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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Children Effortless Reading Sky
Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Determine Feelings May
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Esteem Leadership Quality Self
Time itself comes in drops.
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Come Drop Philosophical Itself

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