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Four Minute Essays By Dr. Frank Crane: 101 total pages.

and pa­tience, or to be good-nobody can come at such accomplishments at once. It is little by little, the steady forcing of 92 FOUR MINUTE ESSAYS 93 the will upon one's stubborn desire, mind, or fingers, whether we feel like it or not, just as a day's work, it is so we crawl up the steep hill of perfection. The will to do is important, and the ambi­ion to do is necessary, and hard work counts; but one essential to any excellence, whether in craftsmanship or character, is time. Somehow or other the past endues us. There's no such thing as a fresh start. Every new start carries with it something of those we made before. Every effort silts some-thing into our nerves or muscles or brain cells so that they are different next time. The power of the thirtieth day is the re­sult of the invisible dividends of the twenty-nine preceding days' work. Somebody asked Susanne Wesley, John's mother, why she told her children the same 94 FOUR MINUTE ESSAYS thing over and over twenty times. "Because nineteen is not enough," she answered. In that

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