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In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.

William James

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Men Philosophy Social
Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Boiling Experience Over Way
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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Agents Ordinance Uprising Wheels
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Encouragement Encouraging Inspirational
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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Dream Play Science
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Business Inspirational Philosophical
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings

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