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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

William James

Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Becoming Gone Instant
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
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
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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Flux Names Reflection
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere
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
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

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