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With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.

William James

It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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Choices Differences Men Savage
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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Discovery Men Mind
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
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
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Affection Alpha Omega
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Opposites Statement Truth
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
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
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Men Philosophical Philosophy

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