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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.

William James

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
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Encouragement Encouraging Inspirational
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
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Belief Desire Truth
Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Mean Reality Truth
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Community Friendship Sympathy
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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Destiny Military Spiritual
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Happiness Laughter Men

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.

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