"It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort."
-Quintilian
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"The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body."
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"Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be."
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"To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination."
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"When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield."
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"Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune."
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