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Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.

William James

We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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Example Human Nature Proud
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
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
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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Best Cute Friendship Friend Quality
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Educational Memories Philosophy
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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Agents Ordinance Uprising Wheels
The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Devil Feet Long
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together
The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Briefly Thinking True Way
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural

Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.

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