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The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.

William James

In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Affection Alpha Omega
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Educational Men Philosophy
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Feelings Self World
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Helping Others Unconditional Volunteering
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Happiness Laughter Men
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
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 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
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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Cash Experience Stream

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