 | James Edward Peabody, Arthur Ellsworth Hunt - 1912 - 634 pages
...hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioning our characters in the wrong way. Could the young but realize how soon they will become...Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never-so-little scar. The drunken Rip Van Winkle, in Jefferson's play, excuses himself for every fresh... | |
 | Burnett Hillman Streeter - 1912 - 560 pages
...here no invention of priests, but something that is substantially endorsed by modern psychology. " We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never...vice leaves its never so little scar. The drunken Rip van Winkle, in Jefferson's play, excuses himself for every fresh dereliction by saying, ' I won't... | |
 | 1912 - 640 pages
...can be realized how important it is that we form the habit of doing right things instead of wrong. "Could the young but realize how soon they will become...heed to their conduct while in the plastic state," wrote James, the psychologist; and also, "In most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set... | |
 | John Rothwell Slater - 1913 - 368 pages
...hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioning our characters in the wrong way. Could the young but realize how soon they will become...vice leaves its never so little scar. The drunken Rip Van Winkle, in Jefferson's play, excuses himself for every fresh dereliction by saying, " I won't... | |
 | Frank Cummins Lockwood - 1913 - 180 pages
...hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioning our characters in the wrong way. Could the young but realize how soon they will become...Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never-so-little scar. The drunken Rip Van Winkle, in Jefferson's play, excuses himself for every fresh... | |
 | George William Hunter - 1914 - 444 pages
...hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioning our characters in the wrong way. Could the young but realize how soon they will become...Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never-so-lit tlc scar. The drunken Hip Van Winkle, in Jefferson's play, excuses himself for every fresh... | |
 | George William Hunter - 1914 - 442 pages
...make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioning our characters in the wrong way. ( 'ould the young but realize how soon they will become mere...Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never-so-little scar. The drunken Rip Van Winkle, in Jefferson's play, excuses himself for every fresh... | |
 | George William Hunter - 1914 - 440 pages
...hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioning our characters in the wrong way. Could the young but realize how soon they will become...bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct-while in the plastic state. We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone.... | |
 | Lewis Raymond Alderman - 1915 - 220 pages
...James says: — Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habit, they would give more heed to their conduct while in...virtue or of vice leaves its never so little scar. . . . Let no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education, whatever the line of it may... | |
 | Lewis Raymond Alderman - 1915 - 236 pages
...becomes definite and concrete. At the close of his famous chapter on "Habit," William James says: — Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habit, they would give more heed to their conduct while hi the plastic state. We are spinning our own... | |
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Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state. We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. 
