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The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.

William James

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
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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Die Education Philosophical
Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Mountain Religious Twilight
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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Decision Order Responsibility

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