... grows" to 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 to hinder future resolutions and emotions from taking the normal path of discharge. The Art of Thinking - Page 132by Thomas Sharper Knowlson - 1921 - 165 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1909 - 340 pages
...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." For this reason some of the Indian and Greek thinkers discouraged the reading of poetry by the young,... | |
| 1886 - 982 pages
...evaporates without bearing practical fruit, is worse than a chance lost; it works so as positively to hinder future resolutions and emotions from taking...weltering sea of sensibility and emotion, but who never docs a manly concrete deed. Rousseau, inflaming all the mothers of France, by his eloquence, to follow... | |
| 1904 - 692 pages
...than in speaking kindly to one's aunt or grandmother, or giving up one's seat in a horsecar. He says, "There is no more contemptible type of human character than that of the nerveless sentimentalist, who spends his life in a weltering sea of sensibility and emotion, but who never does a manly concrete... | |
| William James - 1890 - 720 pages
...evaporates without bearing practical fruit is •worse than a chance lost; it works so as positively to hinder future resolutions and emotions from ta'king...emotion, but who never does a manly concrete deed. Bousseau, inflaming all the mothers of France, by his eloquence, to follow Nature and nurse their babies... | |
| William James - 1890 - 718 pages
...evaporates without bearing practical fruit is worse than a chance lost; it works so as positively to hinder future resolutions and emotions from taking...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... | |
| William James - 1892 - 500 pages
...rol. I. p. 20«. 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. There ia no more contemptible type of human character than that of the nerveless sentimentalist and dreamer,... | |
| John White Chadwick - 1893 - 264 pages
...ingrained in us in proportion to the uninterrupted frequency with which our actions actually occur. There is no more contemptible type of human character...sentimentalist and dreamer, who spends his life in weltering in a sea of sensibility and emotion, and who never does a manly concrete deed." " The habit... | |
| Thomas Benjamin Atkins - 1895 - 380 pages
...deeds are a mimic of the words and deeds of older people. But it is simulation, not dissimulation. The nerveless sentimentalist and dreamer, who spends his life in a weltering sea of sympathetic emotion, is that proverbial person who paves hell with good intentions. But children obedient... | |
| Brooklyn Ethical Association - 1895 - 484 pages
...evaporates without bearing practical fruit, is worse than a chance lost; it works so as positively to hinder future resolutions and 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... | |
| William James - 1900 - 324 pages
...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...no more contemptible type of human character than MAXIMS FOR HABIT-FORMING 71 that of the nerveless sentimentalist and dreamer, who spends his life in... | |
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