Thomas Hughes Quotes

#1. At that moment his soul is fuller of the tomb and him who lies there than of the altar and Him of whom it speaks. Such stages have to be gone through, I believe, by all young and brave souls, who must win their way through hero-worship to the worship of Him who is the King and Lord of heroes.

Thomas Hughes

#2. Class amusements, be they for Dukes or plow-boys, always become nuisances and curses to a country. The true charm of cricket and hunting is that they are still, more or less sociable and universal; There's a place for every man who will come and take his part.

Thomas Hughes

#3. Heaven, they say, protects children, sailors, and drunken men; and whatever answers to Heaven in the academical system protects freshmen.

Thomas Hughes

#4. It's more than a game. It's an institution.

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#5. I want to leave behind me the name of a fellow who never bullied a little boy, or turned his back on a big one.

Thomas Hughes

#6. But I have forgotten to tell you how I came into the world, and am telling you my father's story instead of my own. You seem to like hearing about it though, and you can't understand one without the other.

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#7. You see, at Rugby I was rather a great man. There one had a share in the ruling of 300 boys, and a good deal of responsibility; but here one has only just to take care of oneself, and keep out of scrapes; and that's what I never could do.

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#8. Old timidity has disappeared, and is replaced by silent, quaint fun, with which his face twinkles all over, as he listens.

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#9. Remember there's always a voice saying the right thing to you somewhere if you'll only listen for it.

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#10. Boyishness - by which I mean animal life in its fullest measure, good nature and honest impulses, hatred of injustice and meanness, and thoughtlessness enough to sink a three-decker.

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#11. He had acquired all the composed and self-reliant look which is so remarkable in a good non-commissioned officer.

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#12. A landing place is a famous thing, but it is only enjoyable for a time by any mortal who deserves one at all.

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#13. Don't be in a hurry about finding your work in the world for yourself - you are not old enough to judge for yourself yet; but just look about you in the place you find yourself in, and try to make things a little better and honester there.

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#14. While he was conscious of improving at every stroke, he did not feel that the other was asserting any superiority over him; and so, though more humble than at the most disastrous period of his downward voyage, he was getting into a better temper every minute.

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#15. Blessed is the man who has the gift of making friends; for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of oneself, and seeing and appreciating whatever is noble and living in another man.

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#16. That is the Proctor. He is our Cerberus; he has to keep all undergraduates in good order." "What a task! He ought to have three heads.

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#17. Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends,for it is one of God's best gifts.

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#18. Christ's whole life on earth was the assertion and example of true manliness - the setting forth in living act and word what man is meant to be, and how he should carry himself in this world of God - one long campaign in which the temptation stands out as the first great battle and victory.

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#19. Don't be led away to think this part of the world important and that unimportant. Every corner of the world is important. No man knows whether this part or that is most so, but every man may do some honest work in his own corner.

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#20. We must worship God before we can reverence parents or women, or root out flunkeyism and money-worship.

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#21. Those were times when brave men who knew and loved their profession couldn't be overlooked.

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#22. Life isn't all beer and skittles, but beer and skittles, or something better of the same sort, must form a good part of every Englishman's education.

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#23. The one single use of things which we call our own is that they might be his who hath need of them.

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#24. A character for steadiness once gone is not easily recovered

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#25. Anyone who takes a decided line in certain matters, is sure to lead all the rest.

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#26. Author refers to, short silences in which the resolves which colour a life are so often taken.

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#27. After a sharp inward struggle, he concluded to stay and see it out. He should despise himself, more than he cared to face, if he gave in now.

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#28. Grey hoped the Church would yet be able to save England from the fate of Tyre or Carthage, the great trading nations

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#29. Remember this, I beseech you, all you boys who are getting into the upper forms. Now is the time in all your lives, probably, when you may have more wide influence for good or evil on the society you live in than you ever can have again.

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#30. This work of making trade righteous, of Christianizing trade, looks like the very hardest the Gospel has ever had to take in hand - in England at any rate.

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#31. Gambling makes boys selfish and cruel as well as men.

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#32. He who has conquered his own coward spirit has conquered the whole outward world;

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#33. Shopkeepers - the great landed and commercial interests - regularly sat and slept, and where the two publicans occupied pews, but seldom made even the pretence of worshipping.

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#34. The astonishment soon passed off, the scales seemed to drop from his eyes, and the book became at once and for ever to him the great human and divine book, and the men and women, whom he had looked upon as something quite different from himself, became his friends and counsellors.

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#35. A student was given a mentoring opportunity, in the hope that when you had somebody to lean on you, you would begin to stand a little steadier yourself, and get manliness and thoughtfulness.

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#36. The giving of undue prominence to one fact brings others inexorably on the head of the student to avenge his neglect of them,

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#37. He never wants anything but what's right and fair; only when you come to settle what's right and fair, it's everything that he wants and nothing that you want.

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#38. You are no longer a boy, and one of the first duties which a man owes to his friends and to society is to live within his income.

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