This system of encouragement proves serviceable as a preventive of punishment, the attainment of the tickets being a reward, the forfeiture of them the reverse; and, as such, boys seem often more affected by their loss than by coercion.
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The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds.
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Leave each one his touch of folly it helps to lighten life's burden which, if he could see himself as he is, might be too heavy to carry.
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A circus is like a mother in whom one can confide and who rewards and punishes.
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Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.
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The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is.
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Take the feeling of hunger out of your gut, and you're no longer a champion.
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Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.
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A national evil requires a national remedy; let not this any longer be delayed: let your minds expand, free from every narrow principle, and let the public good become the sole object of your united Christian efforts.
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I judge a restaurant by the bread and by the coffee.
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As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.
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The boredom occasioned by too much restraint is always preferable to that produced by an uncontrolled enthusiasm for a pointless variety.
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Do definite good first of all to yourself, then to definite persons.
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Do definite good; first of all to yourself, then to definite persons.
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Learn from the past, Hope for the future, Live in the present.
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