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Schools and universities are (as in a body) the noble and vital parts, which being vigorous and sound send good blood and active spirits into the vein...more

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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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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 ...more

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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...more

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The faces of your young people in general are not interesting—I don't mean the children, but the young men and women—and they are awkward and clownish...more

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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,...more

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We listened, as all boys in their better moods will listen (ay, and men too for the matter of that), to a man whom we felt to be, with all his heart a...more

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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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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 yourse...more