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“Do we indeed desire the dead Should still be near us at our side ? Is there no baseness we would hide ? No inner vileness that we dread ? How many a father have I seen A sober man, among his boys Whose youth was full of foolish noise.”

Men Should Stills Desire Father Sides Boys Youth Foolish Noise Dread Sober Baseness

Author:Alfred Lord Tennyson

“The most desirable mode of education, is that which is careful that all the acquisitions of the pupil shall be preceded and accompanied by desire . . . The boy, like the man, studies because he desires it. He proceeds upon a plan of is own invention, or by which, by adopting, he has made his own. Everything bespeaks independence and inequality.”

Men Made Desire Boys Study Plans He Man Independence Careful Invention Inequality Desirable Acquisition Pupils Adopting

Author:William Godwin

“When ice appears out of doors, and boys seize it up while it is solid, at first they experience new pleasures. But in the end their pride will not agree to let it go, but their acquisition is not good for them if it stays in their hands. In the same way an identical desire drives lovers to act and not to act.”

Ifs Way Firsts Ends Hands Desire Pleasure Boys Doors Pride Lovers Agree Ice Let It Go Identical Acquisition

Book:Sophocles: Fragments

Source: Sophocles: Fragments

“Ye youths and virgins, when your generous blood Has drunk the warmth of fifteen summers, now The loves invite; now to new rapture wakes The finish'd sense: while stung with keen desire The madd'ning boy his bashful fetters bursts; And, urg'd with secret flames, the riper maid, Conscious and shy, betrays her smarting breast.”

Desire Secret Boys Blood Youth Summer Conscious Drunk Flames Generous Breasts Shy Warmth Invites Betray Fifteen Virgins Maids Rapture Fetters Bashful

Author:John Armstrong

“Boys have a tendency to jump around a lot more than girls. Boys have that desire to want to dunk way more than girls do. It just never seemed like something we could truly fathom and do.”

Way Want Desire Girl Sports Boys Tendencies Like Something Fathom Boy Girl

Author:Lisa Leslie

“Why a tender curb upon the youthful burning boy? Why a little curtain of flesh on the bed of our desire?”

Littles Desire Boys Bed Flesh Burning Restraint Curtains Curb

Book:William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose

Source: William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose

“The boy's (Hack Wilson) got talent and desire, but he ain't got no neck.”

Desire Boys Talent Necks Wilson Hacks

Author:John McGraw

“The Scoutmaster guides the boy in the spirit of an older brother... He has simply to be a boy-man, that is: (1) He must have the boy spirit in him: and must be able to place himself in the right plane with his boys as a first step. (2) He must realise the needs, outlooks and desires of the different ages of boy life. (3) He must deal with the individual boy rather than with the mass. (4) He then needs to promote a corporate spirit among his individuals to gain the best results.”

“Bright and illustrious illusions! Who can blame, who laugh at the boy, who not admire and commend him, for that desire of a fame outlasting the Pyramids by which he insensibly learns to live in a life beyond the present, and nourish dreams of a good unattainable by the senses?”

Dream Desire Boys Laughing Fame Illusion Blame Senses Admire Pyramids Unattainable Outlasting

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton