Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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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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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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Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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