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Tag Name "Schoolmaster" (33)

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From earliest childhood the boy was accustomed to feel that, for him, life was double. Winter and summer, town and country, law and liberty, were hostile, and the man who pretended they were not, was in his eyes a schoolmaster -- that is, a man employed to tell lies to little boys.
Henry Adams
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Let the soldier be abroad if he will, he can do nothing in this age. There is another personage, - a personage less imposing in the eyes of some, perhaps insignificant. The schoolmaster is abroad, and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier in full military array...
Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux
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I trust everything, under God, to habit, upon which, in all ages, the lawgiver, as well as the schoolmaster, has mainly placed his reliance,--habit, which makes everything easy, and casts all difficulties upon the deviation from the wonted course.
Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux
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A good, very good, not to say admirable schoolmaster, but then he is only a schoolmaster.
Henry George
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A man's religion is himself. If he is right-minded toward God, he is religious if the Lord Jesus Christ is his schoolmaster, then he is Christianly religious.
Henry Ward Beecher
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A first novel of astonishing force, craft and beauty, The Headmaster's Wager conjures up a dizzyingly evocative wartime Saigon in the story of Percival Chen, a Chinese schoolmaster in Vietnam. This extraordinary book made me weep. Read it.
Janice Y. K. Lee
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It is also the fate of leadership to be misunderstood. It is a grave error for any leader to be oversensitive in the face of criticism, to conduct discussions as if he or she is a schoolmaster talking to less informed and inexperienced learners.
Nelson Mandela
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You send your child to the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys who educate him. You send him to the Latin class, but much of histuition comes, on his way to school, from the shop- windows.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.
Thomas Paine
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God forgive me for having thought it possible that a schoolmaster could be out and out a rational being.
Walter Scott
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The motto for every missionary, whether preacher, printer, or schoolmaster, ought to be 'Devoted for Life.'
Adoniram Judson
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if you are not allowed to touch the heart sometimes in spite of syntax, and are not to be loved until you all know the difference between trimeter and trameter, may all Poetry go to the deuce, and every schoolmaster perish miserably!
William Makepeace Thackeray
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Why are we never quite at ease in the presence of a schoolmaster? Because we are conscious that he is not quite at his ease in ours. He is awkward, and out of place in the society of his equals. He comes like Gulliver from among his little people, and he cannot fit the stature of his understanding to yours.
Charles Lamb
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The role of the schoolmaster is to collect little plastic lumps of human dough from private households and shape them on the social kneading board.
Edward Alsworth Ross
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An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The teacher, whether mother, priest, or schoolmaster, is the real maker of history.
H. G. Wells
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Every schoolmaster after the age of forty-nine, is inclined to flatulence is apt to swallow frequently and to puff
Harold Nicolson
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No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else. All the dogmatic stations in life have the effect of fixing a certain stiffness of attitude forever, as though they mesmerised the subject.
Henry Adams
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The schoolmaster is abroad, and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier in full military array...
Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux
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I do not see why the schoolmaster should be taxed to support the priest, and not the priest the schoolmaster.
Henry David Thoreau
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Society is like a schoolmaster who estimates boys according to their conformity to a standard that is easiest for running a school.
Henry Sidgwick
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There is surely room for yet another schoolmaster when a score of seers advertise themselves in Boston newspapers.
James Russell Lowell
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I have always loved music whoso has skill in this art, is of a good temperament, fitted for all things. We must teach music in schools a schoolmaster ought to have skill in music, or I would not regard him neither should we ordain young men as preachers, unless they have been well exercised in music
Martin Luther
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I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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