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The American over-tension and jerkiness and breathlessness and intensity and agony of expression are primarily social, and only secondarily physiological, phenomena.
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the great thing in all education is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy
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Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake.
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Most of us continue living unnecessarily near our surface.
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Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives usually far within his limits; he possesses powers of various sorts which he habitually fails to use.
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The busiest man needs no more hours of rest than the idler.
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But a man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body.
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One's beliefs have long been thought to be sanctuaries which government could not invade.
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Surely it is hardly fitting that the ruler should be baser than the ruled.
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The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing: it refuses nothing. It receives, but does not keep.
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My life has a limit, but my knowledge is without limit.
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The pure men of old slept without dreams, and waked without anxiety.