In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
WILLIAM JAMESMost people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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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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The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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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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To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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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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Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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All religions begin with the cry Help.
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