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Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.

William James

Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
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
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry

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