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No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.

William James

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Esteem Failure Inspirational Self
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Math Passion Union
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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Art Men Philosophy
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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Evil Prove Ruling
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Belief Desire Truth
Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational
The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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Consciousness Mystic Opinion

No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.

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