{"author":"Thomas Hughes","author_id":"Thomas+Hughes","total_quotes":27,"quotes":[{"text":"Schools and universities are (as in a body) the noble and vital parts, which being vigorous and sound send good blood and active spirits into the veins and arteries, which cause health and strength; or, if feeble or ill-affected, corrupt all the vital parts; whereupon grow diseases, and in the end, death itself.","author":"Thomas Hughes","tags":["college","higher-education","noblesse-oblige","patriotism"],"id":4353,"author_id":"Thomas+Hughes"},{"text":"A character for steadiness once gone is not easily recovered.","author":"Thomas Hughes","tags":["character","habits"],"id":19965,"author_id":"Thomas+Hughes"},{"text":"Don't be in a hurry about finding your work in the world for yourself—you are not old enough to judge for yourself yet; but just look about you in the place you find yourself in, and try to make things a little better and honester there.","author":"Thomas Hughes","tags":["calling","career","vocation"],"id":45192,"author_id":"Thomas+Hughes"},{"text":"At that moment his soul is fuller of the tomb and him who lies there than of the altar and Him of whom it speaks. Such stages have to be gone through, I believe, by all young and brave souls, who must win their way through hero-worship to the worship of Him who is the King and Lord of heroes.","author":"Thomas Hughes","tags":["death","grief","hero-worship","mentoring"],"id":67790,"author_id":"Thomas+Hughes"},{"text":"A student was given a mentoring opportunity, 'in the hope that when you had somebody to lean on you, you would begin to stand a little steadier yourself, and get manliness and thoughtfulness.","author":"Thomas Hughes","tags":["discipleship","mentoring","responsibility"],"id":78829,"author_id":"Thomas+Hughes"},{"text":"Don't be led away to think this part of the world important and that unimportant. Every corner of the world is important. No man knows whether this part or that is most so, but every man may do some honest work in his own corner.","author":"Thomas Hughes","tags":["meaning","purpose","significance"],"id":104792,"author_id":"Thomas+Hughes"},{"text":"The trout fisher, like the landscape painter, haunts the loveliest places of the earth, and haunts them alone. Solitude and his own thoughts—he must be on the best terms with all of these; and he who can take kindly the largest allowance of these is likely to be the kindliest and truest with his fellow men.","author":"Thomas Hughes","tags":["contemplation","graciousness","reflection","thinking"],"id":109139,"author_id":"Thomas+Hughes"},{"text":"Shopkeepers —the great landed and commercial interests—regularly sat and slept, and where the two publicans occupied pews, but seldom made even the pretence of worshipping.","author":"Thomas Hughes","tags":["idolatry","materialism"],"id":115463,"author_id":"Thomas+Hughes"},{"text":"The one single use of things which we call our own is that they might be his who hath need of them.","author":"Thomas Hughes","tags":["charity","discipleship","materialism"],"id":123283,"author_id":"Thomas+Hughes"},{"text":"Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends  for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things  but above all  the power of getting out of one's self  and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.","author":"Thomas Hughes","tags":["friendship"],"id":126102,"author_id":"Thomas+Hughes"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":27,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}