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My object will be, if possible, to form Christian men, for Christian boys I can scarcely hope to make.

Thomas Arnold

It is quite awful to watch the strength of evil in such young minds, and how powerless is every effort against it. It would give the vainest man alive a very fair notion of his own insufficiency, to see how little he can do and how his most earnest addresses are as a cannon ball on a bolster.

Thomas Arnold

Real knowledge, like every thing else of the highest value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, — studied for, — thought for, — and, more than all, it must be prayed for.

Thomas Arnold

The distinction between Christianity and all other systems of religion consists largely in this, that in these other, men are found seeking after God, while Christianity is God seeking after man.

Thomas Arnold

My love for any place, or person, or institution, is exactly the measure of my desire to reform them.

Thomas Arnold

As of rioting, the old Roman way of dealing with that is always the right one; flog the rank and file, and fling the ring-leaders from the Tarpeian rock.

Thomas Arnold

As for rioting, the old Roman way of dealing with that is always the right one; flog the rank and file, and fling the ringleaders from the Tarpeian rock.

Thomas Arnold

Thomas Arnold

Thomas Arnold

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Born: June 13, 1795

Died: June 12, 1842 (aged 46)

Bio: Thomas Arnold was an English educator and historian. Arnold was an early supporter of the Broad Church Anglican movement. He was the headmaster of Rugby School from 1828 to 1841, where he introduced a number of reforms.

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