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The entire routine of our memorized acquisitions is a consequence of nothing but the Law of Contiguity. The words of a poem,…
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Considering the inner fitness of things, one would rather think that the very first act of a will endowed with freedom should…
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From the Vedas we learn a practical art of surgery, medicine, music, house building under which mechanized art is included. They are…
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The exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess Success is our national disease.
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There is a stream, a succession of states, or waves, or fields (or whatever you please to call them), of knowledge, of…
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Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to…
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We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and as carefully guard against…
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The most natively interesting object to a man is his own personal self and its fortunes. We accordingly see that the moment…
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'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body…
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it…
— Edward Everett Hale
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The longer a soul hath neglected duty, the more ado there is to get it taken up.
— William Gurnall
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The first thing the intellect does with an object is to class it along with something else. But any object that is…
— William James
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Against my will I am sent to bid you come in to dinner. BENEDICK Fair Beatrice, I thank you for your pains.…
— William Shakespeare
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Sweet Beatrice, wouldst thou come when I called thee? BEATRICE Yea, signior, and depart when you bid me. BENEDICK O, stay but…
— William Shakespeare
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I had rather munch a crust of brown bread and an onion in a corner, without any more ado or ceremony, than…
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
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You may feel like kicking yourself because you blame yourself for winding up in a tricky predicament, but all that will get…
— 06 July
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