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Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.

William James

Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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Exercise Inspiration Somebody Two
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
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
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
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Political Volunteer War
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
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
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Health Love Wings
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Opposites Statement Truth
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science

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