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“Every age and degree of understanding should have its proper measure of discipline. With regard to boys and adolescents, therefore, or those who cannot understand the seriousness of the penalty of excommunication, whenever such as these are delinquent let them be subjected to severe fasts or brought to terms by harsh beatings, that they may be cured.”

Should May Age Understanding Term Boys Discipline Degrees Should Have Regard Penalties Harsh Severe Seriousness Delinquents Excommunication

Book:St. Benedict’s Rule for Monasteries

Source: St. Benedict’s Rule for Monasteries

“There is no discipline in the world so severe as the discipline of experience subjected to the tests of intelligent development and direction.”

World Development Discipline Tests Intelligent Severe

Book:Experience and Education, 60th Anniversary Edition

Source: Experience and Education, 60th Anniversary Edition

“But the severe rules of discipline which the prudence of the bishops had instituted were relaxed by the same prudence in favour of an Imperial proselyte, whom it was so important to allure, by every gentle condescension, into the pale of the church; and Constantine was permitted, at least by a tacit dispensation, to enjoy most of the privileges, before he had contracted any of the obligations, of a Christian.”

Source: Guizot's Gibbon: History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“The State's your mother, your father, the totality of your interests. No discipline can be too severe for the man that denies thatby word or deed.”

Men States Mother Father Interest He Man Discipline Deeds Deny Severe Totalitarianism Totality

Author:H. G. Wells

“At sixty I look back on a life of deep disappointments, of withered hopes, of unlooked for suffering, of severe discipline.”

Looks Suffering Hope Discipline Aging Disappointment Sixty Severe Withered Deep Disappointment

Author:Sarah Moore Grimke

“I noticed affixed to a laboratory door the following words: "Les théories passent. Le Grenouille reste. [The theories pass. The frog remains.] &mdashJean Rostand, Carnets d'un biologiste." There is a risk that in the less severe discipline of criticism the result may turn out to be different; the theories will remain but the frog may disappear.”

May Different Science Turns Differences Results Risk Doors Theory Discipline Criticism Remains Following Disappear Self Discipline Severe Laboratory Frogs Grenouille

Author:Frank Kermode

“Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.”

Mind May Hard Facts Wisdom Form Difficult Ability Hard Work Discipline Judgment Stores Maturity Heat Quantity Severe Short Time

Author:Calvin Coolidge