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A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.

William James

True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Habit Principles Thinking
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
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
[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Differences Important Personality
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Facts Models Role Virtue
Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Heroism Reality Theatre
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
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Educational Men Philosophy
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
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Best Effort Forget Hard Work
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship

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