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The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.

William James

With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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Best Cute Friendship Friend Quality
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
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Esteem Failure Inspirational Self
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
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
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
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
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Feelings Self World
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Men Philosophical Philosophy
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Becoming Gone Instant
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain

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