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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

William James

Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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Islands Roots Sea Underground
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
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
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
The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Able Accompanying Thinking
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
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
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
Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Heroism Reality Theatre
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
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
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs

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