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Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

William James

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
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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Example Human Nature Proud
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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Agents Ordinance Uprising Wheels
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Educational Memories Philosophy
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Educational Inspirational 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
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Discovery Important Positive
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
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
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
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks

Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

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