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Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.

William James

Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
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
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Facts Models Role Virtue
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Culture Life Real
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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Anticipation Brave Use
Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Men Mind Way
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual

Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.

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