...helped hundreds of people out of darkness into light. It has contributed to the making of character. " Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day." A great number of people have these words in mind as if they were a text of Scripture, and are made...

...principle such as this embodied in the following statement of James is really out of date and ineffectual: "Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day, be systematically heroic in little unnecessary points, do every day or two something for no other reason...

...more modern in his psychological conception than the illustrious author of this often quoted saying: "Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day. ... Be systematically heroic in little unnecessary points, do every day or two something for no other...

...aspire to gain. 4. Don't preach too much to your children or abound in good talk in the abstract. 5. Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day. He further states that, "Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles...

...fact, that they seem in some degree subject to the law of habit, which is a material law. As a final practical maxim, relative to these habits of the will,...offer something like this: Keep the faculty of effort alite in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day. That is, be systematically ascetic or heroic...

...fact, that they seem in some degree subject to the law of habit, which is a material law. As a final practical maxim, relative to these habits of the will, we may, then, offer something like this: (fTeep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.jfah&t is, be systematically...

...law. As a final firactical maxim relative to these habits of the law we may then offer something iko this: Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exerciso every day. That is, be systematically ascetic or heroic in little unnecessary points, do every...

...prompting you may experience in the direction of the habits vou aspire to gain. 8. Keep the facultv of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day, /. e., be systematically ascetic or heroic in denving yourself something or doing something for no...

...humanity humanity war in Cuba war in Cuba colonization CHAPTER XI DAILY EXERCISES FOR THE MEMORY " Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day." — WILLIAM JAMES. MEMORY, like the muscles of the body, is strengthened by use and weakened by inaction....

...go back now to our general maxims, I may at last, as a fifth and final practical maxim about habits, offer something like this: Keep the faculty of effort...gratuitous exercise every day. That is, be systematically heroic in little unnecessary points, do every day or two something for no other reason than its difficulty,...