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I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.

William James

We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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Example Human Nature Proud
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
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
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
Time itself comes in drops.
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Come Drop Philosophical Itself
Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Boiling Experience Over Way
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Bystanders Eye Teaching
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality

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