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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.

William James

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
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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Owing Truth Views
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
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Culture Life Real
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Beast Kind Men
A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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Meaningful Motivational Perseverance
Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Mean Reality Truth
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Affection Alpha Omega
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
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
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
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

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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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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