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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.

William James

Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
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
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
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
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
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
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
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
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Community Friendship Sympathy
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
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

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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