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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

William James

With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
WILLIAM JAMES

Good Hell Intention Intentions
Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Becoming Gone Instant
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
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
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
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
Time itself comes in drops.
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Come Drop Philosophical Itself
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Growth Men Years
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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Exercise Inspiration Somebody Two
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up

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