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“Home is the first and most important school of character. It is there that every human being receives his best moral training, or his worst; for it is there that he imbibes those principles of conduct which endure through manhood, and cease only with life.”

Firsts Humans Important Character Home School Human Beings Moral Principles Worst Training Endure Cease Manhood

Book:Character

Source: Character

“And thou, who didst the stars and sunbeams know, Self-school'd, self-scann'd, self-honour'd, self-secure, Didst tread on earth unguess'd at. Better so! All pains the immortal spirit must endure, All weakness which impairs, all griefs which bow, Find their sole speech in that victorious brow.”

Knows Self School Earth Pain Spirit Stars Grief Speech Weakness Endure Secure Immortal Honour Bows Sole Brows Sunbeams

Book:Selected Poems of Matthew Arnold

Source: Selected Poems of Matthew Arnold

“I've since come to understand the reason school lasts thirteen years. It takes that long to sufficiently break a child's will. It is not easy to disconnect children's wills, to disconnect them from their own experiences of the world in preparation for the lives of painful employment they will have to endure.”

World Years Children Long Reason School Lasts Easy Break Endure Painful Employment Preparation Thirteen

Book:A Language Older Than Words

Source: A Language Older Than Words

“The sea has formed the English character and the essential England is to be found in those who follow it. From blue waters they have learned mercifulness, and they have also learned - in the grimmest of schools - precision and resolution. The sea endures no makeshifts. If a thing is not exactly right it will be vastly wrong.”

Ifs Character School Found Water Sea Essentials England Blue Endure Resolution Precision Blue Water

Book:Nelson's History of the war

Source: Nelson's History of the war