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He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.

William James

The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Allies Education Enemy
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Cases Matter Philosophical
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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Owing Truth Views
The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Briefly Thinking True Way
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Growth Men Years
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Law Medicine Philosophy
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Political Volunteer War
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
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

He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.

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