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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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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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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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If, then, you wish to insure the interest of your pupils, there is only one way to do it; and that is…
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All that we need explicitly to note is that, the more the passive attention is relied on, by keeping the material interesting;…
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Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man; but I call him an unsociable man, an unprofitable man. Gaming is…
— Samuel Johnson
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He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.
— Walter Lippmann
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In the lottery of life there are more prizes drawn than blanks, and to one misfortune there are fifty advantages. Despondency is…
— Thomas De Witt Talmage
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A man has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do…
— Walter Lippmann
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The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters.
— Mary Astell
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Make wars unprofitable and you make them impossible.
— A. Philip Randolph
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Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, the mere materials with which wisdom builds, till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, does…
— William Cowper
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Speculations apparently the most unprofitable have almost invariably been those from which the greatest practical applications have emanated.
— John Herschel
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