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The conscience of every man recognizes courage as the foundation of manliness, and manliness as the perfection of human character.
There's always a voice saying the right thing to you somewhere, if you'll only listen for it.
Tom Brown at Oxford (1861)
Heaven, they say, protects children, sailors, and drunken men; and whatever answers to Heaven in the academical system protects freshmen.
Tom Brown at Oxford (1861)
Young men are pretty much like a drove of sheep; any one who takes a decided line on certain matters, is sure to lead all the rest.
Tom Brown at Oxford (1861)
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.
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.
Tom Brown's School Days (1857)
This is worth living for; the whole sum of school-boy existence gathered up into one straining, struggling half-hour, a half-hour worth a year of common life.
Tom Brown's School Days (1857)
Blessed are they who have 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 one's self and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.
Tom Brown at Oxford (1861)
[W]hat will not a delicately nurtured British lady go through when her mind is bent either on pleasure or duty?
Tom Brown at Oxford (1861)
There isn't such a reasonable fellow in the world, to hear him talk. He never wants anything but what's right and fair; only when you come to settle what's right and fair, it’s everything he wants, and nothing that you want. And that’s his idea of a compromise.
"The consciousness of the darkness in one and around one brings the longing for light. And then the light dawns; through mist and fog, perhaps, but enough to pick one's way by." He stopped a moment and then added, "and shines ever brighter unto the perfect day."
Tom Brown at Oxford (1861)
From behind the shadow of the still small voice — more awful than tempest or earthquake — more sure and persistent than day and night — is always sounding full of hope and strength to the weariest of us all, "Be of good cheer, I have overcome the world."
The Manliness of Christ (1879)
For the credit of muscular Christianity, one must say that it was not her weight, but the tumult in his own inner man, which made her bearer totter. Nevertheless, if one is wholly unused to the exercise, the carrying a healthy young English girl weighing a good eight stone, is as much as most men can conveniently manage.
Tom Brown at Oxford (1861)
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.
The Manliness of Christ (1879)