Josephine Demott Robinson

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    Never mind if you fall far short of the thing you want to do,—encourage your effort. If no one else will say it to you, say it to yourself. “Not so bad.” It will make the next effort easier and better.
    Josephine Demott Robinson (1865–1948)

    There are so bewilderingly many laws in the Outside World. We of the circus know only one law—simple and unfailing. The Show must go on.
    —Josephine Demott Robinson (1865–1948)

    Never mind if you fall far short of the thing you want to do,—encourage your effort. If no one else will say it to you, say it to yourself. “Not so bad.” It will make the next effort easier and better.
    Josephine Demott Robinson (1865–1948)

    There are so bewilderingly many laws in the Outside World. We of the circus know only one law—simple and unfailing. The Show must go on.
    —Josephine Demott Robinson (1865–1948)

    Give him the darkest inch your shelf allows,
    Hide him in lonely garrets, if you will,—
    But his hard, human pulse is throbbing still
    With the sure strength that fearless truth endows.
    —Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)