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Thomas Hughes

(1822–1896) Judge

29 quotes in 190 categories

Thomas Hughes was a judge, best known for Tom Brown's School Days.

Quick Facts About Thomas Hughes

Born: October 20, 1822
Died: March 22, 1896
Profession: Judge
Notable works: Tom Brown's School Days

About Thomas Hughes

Thomas Hughes was an English lawyer, judge, politician and author. He is most famous for his novel Tom Brown's School Days (1857), a semi-autobiographical work set at Rugby School, which Hughes had attended. It had a lesser-known sequel, Tom Brown at Oxford (1861).

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Thomas Hughes

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

Game

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“Boyishness—by which I mean animal life in its fullest measure, good nature and honest impulses, hatred of injustice and meanness, and thoughtlessness…

Animal life

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“A character for steadiness once gone is not easily recovered”

Character

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Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things,…

Best gift

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“Don't be in a hurry about finding your work in the world for yourself—you are not old enough to judge for yourself…

Calling

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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.”

Charity

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Christ's whole life on earth was the assertion and example of true manliness — the setting forth in living act and word…

Assertion

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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…

Communication

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“He who has conquered his own coward spirit has conquered the whole outward world;”

Coward

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“...so bear in mind that majorities, especially respectable ones, are nine times out of ten in the wrong; and that if you…

Majority-v-minority

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“The astonishment soon passed off, the scales seemed to drop from his eyes, and the book became at once and for ever…

Bible

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From behind the shadow of the still small voice — more awful than tempest or earthquake — more sure and persistent than…

Awful

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

Remember

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Life isn't all beer and skittles.

Beer

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Gambling makes boys selfish and cruel as well as men.

Boys

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

Best gift

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Life isn't all beer and skittles, but beer and skittles, or something better of the same sort, must form a good part…

Life

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“Class amusements, be they for Dukes or plow-boys, always become nuisances and curses to a country. The true charm of cricket and…

Common culture

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“Don't be led away to think this part of the world important and that unimportant. Every corner of the world is important.…

Every man

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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…

Compromise

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

Faces

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Be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.

Cheer

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

Friendship

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We all have to learn, in one way or another, that neither men nor boys get second chances in this world. We…

Boys

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

Answers

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