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With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.

William James

Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
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
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Law Medicine Philosophy
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Educational Memories Philosophy
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
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
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive

With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.

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