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" When a resolve or a fine glow of feeling is allowed to evaporate without bearing practical fruit, it is worse than a chance lost; it works so as positively to hinder future resolutions and emotions from taking the normal path of discharge. "
Child Culture in the Home: A Book for Mothers - Page 124
by Martha B. Mosher - 1898 - 240 pages
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The Theosophist, Volume 30

1909 - 340 pages
...Prof. James, who says (quoted in the Theosophical Review for June last) : " When a resolve or fine flow of feeling is allowed to evaporate without bearing...emotions from taking the normal path of discharge." For this reason some of the Indian and Greek thinkers discouraged the reading of poetry by the young,...
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The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1

William James - 1890 - 718 pages
...their use. Every time a resolve or a fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing practical fruit is worse than a chance lost; it works so as positively...normal path of discharge. There is no more contemptible tvpe of human character than that of the nerveless sentimentalist and dreamer, who spends his life...
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Psychology

William James - 1892 - 500 pages
...allowed to evaporate without « J. Bahnsen : ' Beitrftge zu Charakterologie ' (1867), rol. I. p. 20«. bearing practical fruit it is worse than a chance...emotions from taking the normal path of discharge. There ia no more contemptible type of human character than that of the nerveless sentimentalist and dreamer,...
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Psychology

William James - 1892 - 534 pages
...ingrained in us in proportion to the uninterrupted frequency with which the actions actually occur, and the brain ' grows' to their use. When a resolve...fine glow of feeling is allowed to evaporate without * J. Bahnsen: 'Beitrftge zu Charakterologie' (1867), vol. I. p. 20ft. bearing practical fruit it is...
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Life and the Conditions of Survival: The Physical Basis of Ethics, Sociology ...

Brooklyn Ethical Association - 1895 - 484 pages
...their use. Every time a resolve or a fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing practical fruit, is worse than a chance lost; it works so as positively...emotions from taking the normal path of discharge;" while Newman sings: "Prune thou thy words, the thoughts control That o'er thee swell and throng; They...
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The Theosophist, Volume 20

1899 - 1074 pages
...inside. The psychological reason for this is well stated by Professor James in his Psychology : " When a fine glow of feeling is allowed to evaporate without...lost : it works so as positively to hinder future emotions from taking the norms! path of discharge. One becomes filled with emotions which habitually...
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Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education

National Society for the Study of Education - 1900 - 1068 pages
...ingrained in us in proportion to the uninterrupted frequency with which the actions actually occur, and the brain ' grows ' to their use. When a resolve...emotions from taking the normal path of discharge." ' The school then should be consciously organized for the puipose of providing the largest possible...
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Latter Day Saints Southern Star, Volume 2

1900 - 446 pages
...actually occur. Every time a resolve or fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing practical fruit is worse than a chance lost; it works so as positively to hinder future resolutions and emotions from being carried out Into acts. We must expect nothing from cautions and precepts beyond the point at...
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Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals

William James - 1900 - 330 pages
...ingrained in us in proportion to the uninterrupted frequency with which the actions actually occur, and the brain ' grows ' to their use. When a resolve or a fine glow of f eeling is allowed to evaporate without bearing practical fruit, it is worse than a chance lost: it...
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Teachers' Manual for Second Reader

Isaac Kaufman Funk, Montrose Jonas Moses - 1904 - 358 pages
...and the public will be on its guard. (3) We quote a brief extract from Prof. James, " Psychology ": " When a resolve or a fine glow of feeling is allowed...emotions from taking the normal path of discharge." LESSON VII The teacher is referred to "Practical Work in the School Room " [Part III, Lessons on Plants;...
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