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The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.

William James

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
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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Art Life Positive
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
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
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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Art Men Philosophy
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success
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

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