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

William James

Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
WILLIAM JAMES

Educational Inspirational Philosophy
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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Finals Lasts Men
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Community Friendship Sympathy
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
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Mind Peculiar Self
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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Health Love Wings
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Discovery Important Positive
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
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual

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

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