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Failures

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Parent Issue
Day
2
Month
November
Year
1894
Copyright
Public Domain
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"Do not fot ontt instant forget, " said I a prominent artist, addressing his pupila, "that so callee! failures are only milestouea on the road to suocess. With each one passed there is just so rnuch of tbe weary, inevitable journey behind you, and you are just so much nearer the goal. " A comfortable theory which it would be well if we were philosophical enemgh to apply to all onr undertakings. If young people, too, could only be taught to count their honest failures as so inany premiums vaid to experience, how much discouragement would be saved and how many ultímate triumphs won ! Parents and teachers do not half appreciate the valué of a fallare, which with tact and kindness is turned to good account, and which in the end may be far more beneflcial than a suecess. Children should early be trained to cousider them not in the light of discourageinents, but as the best centives

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Ann Arbor Argus
Old News