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All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.

William James

In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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Children Effortless Reading Sky
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Habit Principles Thinking
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success
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
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
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Men Responsibility Stronger
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
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
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive

All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.

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