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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

William James

Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
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
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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Art Life Positive
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Art Force Process
Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Beast Kind Men
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Educational Memories Philosophy
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs

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