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

William James

Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Civilization Class Fear
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Habit Principles Thinking
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Briefly Thinking True Way
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
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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Evil Prove Ruling
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly

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