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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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Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard…
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A kitten is so flexible that she is almost double; the hind parts are equivalent to another kitten with which the forepart…
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Odd arrangements and funny solutions are the proof of evolution - paths that a sensible God would never tread but that a…
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We cannot conceive how the Foetus is form'd in the Womb, nor as much as how a Plant springs from the Earth…
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Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the…
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Nay, fly to altars; there they'll talk you dead; For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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Your soul must hold fast to Him, you must follow after Him in your thoughts, you must tread His ways by faith,…
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