#proves

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. ↗

— Joseph Lancaster

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The Indian Corn, or Maiz, proves the most useful Grain in the World; and had it not been for the Fruitfulness of this Species, it would have proved very difficult to have settled some of the Plantations in America. ↗

— John Lawson

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Most of these pictures, taken while travelling, were developed on the mantelpiece of a hotel room, which proves that the method is easy enough to carry out. ↗

— Gabriel Lippmann

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You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

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Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid. ↗

— Mark Twain

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Revenge proves its own executioner. ↗

— John Ford

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We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest. ↗

— Voltaire

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We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise. ↗

— Terry Hands

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The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them. ↗

— Joseph Addison

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Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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