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Time itself comes in drops.

William James

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
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Best Effort Forget Hard Work
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Attitude Changing Men
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
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Opposites Statement Truth
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational

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