He was the product of an English public school and university. He was, moreover, a modern product of those seats of athletic exercise. He had little education and highly developed muscles -- that is to say, he was no scholar, but essentially a gentleman.


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ROBERT H. SCHULLER
We all know that a church is not a building.
ROBERT H. SCHULLER
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.
ROBERT H. SCHULLER
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the r...
ROBERT H. SCHULLER
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
ROBERT H. SCHULLER
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire a...
ROBERT H. SCHULLER
I think a good pastor is somebody who is honest and humble and has a really caring heart.
ROBERT H. SCHULLER
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
ROBERT H. SCHULLER
Anybody who succeeds is helping people. The secret to success is find a need and fill it; find a hur...
ROBERT H. SCHULLER
Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.
ROBERT H. SCHULLER
Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inesca...
BRYANT H. MCGILL
The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
D. H. LAWRENCE
Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.
D. H. LAWRENCE
The more the soul knows, the more she loves, and loving much, she tastes much.
W. H. MURRAY
All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred.
W. H. MURRAY
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
W. H. MURRAY
It was a proof of Welsh good nature: so long as I had a friend that knew and could introduce me, the...
W. H. DAVIES
I had now been in the United States of America something like five years, working here and there as ...
W. H. DAVIES
Summer boarders often left clothes behind, and of what use were they to the landladies, for no rag-a...
W. H. DAVIES
I had made up my mind to find a woman to share my life: one who would leave London altogether and go...
W. H. DAVIES
I dislike society because conversation exhausts my brain more than silent thought - again, I cannot ...
W. H. DAVIES
However careful a tramp may be to avoid places where there is abundant work, he cannot always succee...
W. H. DAVIES
My impression of Americans from the beginning is of the best, and I have never since had cause to al...
W. H. DAVIES
It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I can...
W. H. DAVIES
I like to see a good scientific bout by men who know the use of their hands but would rather walk tw...
W. H. DAVIES
Mother's father and brothers all took great interest in pugilism, and they knew the game well fr...
W. H. DAVIES
But cats to me are strange, so strange I cannot sleep if one is near.
W. H. DAVIES
Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.
W. H. DAVIES
How the snow falls in the north! Flake on flake falling incessantly, until the small dingles are alm...
W. H. DAVIES
Being in this fine mood, I spoke to a little boy, whom I saw playing alone in the road, asking him w...
W. H. DAVIES
What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare?
W. H. DAVIES
I like to give pennies to children, but unfortunately, a man cannot do these things if he lives in a...
W. H. DAVIES
As long as I love Beauty I am young.
W. H. DAVIES
May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, consideri...
W. H. AUDEN
All that we are not stares back at what we are.
W. H. AUDEN