Irresolution is a worse vice than rashness.
He who shoots worst may sometimes hit the mark, but he, who shoots not
at all can never hit it. Irresolution loosens all the joints of a state;
like an ague, it shakes not this nor that limb, but all the body is at
once in a fit. The irresolute man is lifted from one place to another,
so hatcheth nothing, but addles all his actions.
It will pay you to think carefully on the above quotation from Feltham.
Also, consider the following beautiful paragraph on Faith.
Faith is like the primitive granite of old New England. Dig down deep
and you come to it below all superimposed strata. Go to the summit of
the highest mountains and you find it, on loftiest elevations. Faith
begins as the basis of the infants knowledge; it ends in leading us to
know the bigness, the grandeur of life.
On these two things, to large degree, depends your rapid success in
learning to play through the Method of AUTOMATIC FINGER CONTROL. You
must be filled with the faith and knowledge that each exercise has its
particular place not only in strengthening the muscles, but in preparing
you for the work to come. And knowing this, you must be filled with
resolution to work and achieve that you never falter by the way—that you
never miss a practice period.
The Exercises this week are 10, 13, 15, and 16.