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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

William James

Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Happiness Laughter Men
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
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
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Men Mind Way
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
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
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
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Cases Matter Philosophical

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

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