Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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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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Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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New habits can be launched.
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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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