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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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But this Christ or Redeemer took not upon him the nature of angels, but the seed of Abraham, that is, human nature,…
— Adam Clarke
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Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities,…
— William James
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They do not know what they say. If it came to a conflict of arms, the war will last at least four…
— Robert E. Lee
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Men, your primary responsibility in your home, after your wife, is you to disciple your own children. And if you don't do…
— Paul Washer
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What I am thinking and doing day by day is resistlessly shaping my future - a future in which there is no…
— Horatio Dresser
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Remorse is the punishment of crime; repentance, its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented conscience; the latter to a soul changed…
— Joseph Joubert
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I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss, and, in their struggles to be truly free, in…
— Charles Dickens
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We must have done something very wicked before we were born, or else we must be going to be very happy indeed…
— Alexandre Dumas-fils
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