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Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task

William James

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
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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Basketball Dream Perseverance
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Belief Desire Truth
The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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All Fields Instant Time
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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Art Men Philosophy
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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Anticipation Brave Use
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
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
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
Time itself comes in drops.
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Come Drop Philosophical Itself
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success

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