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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

William James

Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Mountain Religious Twilight
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
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
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
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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Basketball Dream Perseverance
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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Facts Philosophy Way
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Pay Quality Supreme
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
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
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together

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