Roughing it with Boys: Actual Experiences of Boys at Summer and Winter Camps in the Maine Woods |
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Roughing It with Boys: Actual Experiences of Boys at Summer and Winter Camps ... George Walter Hinckley No preview available - 2013 |
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Page 80 - You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face. It's nothing against you to fall down flat, But to lie there — that's disgrace. The harder you're thrown, why the higher you bounce} Be proud of your blackened eye! It isn't the fact that you're licked that counts; It's how did you fight and why?
Page 186 - Go to the Ant, thou Sluggard, consider her ways, and be wise : which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, provideth her 15 meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.
Page 80 - Oh, a trouble's a ton, or a trouble's an ounce, Or a trouble is what you make it, And it isn't the fact that you're hurt that counts, But only how did you take it?
Page 85 - It's jest as cheap and easy to rejoice; When God sorts out the weather and sends rain, W'y, rain's my choice.
Page 86 - Tis the fool who wins half the battle, Then throws all his chances away.
Page 81 - And though you be done to the death, what then? If you battled the best you could. If you played your part in the world of men, Why, the Critic will call it good. Death con1es with a crawl or comes with a pounce, And whether he's slow or spry, It isn't the fact that you're dead that counts, But only — how did you die?
Page 80 - Did you tackle that trouble that came your way With a resolute heart and cheerful? Or hide your face from the light of day With a craven soul and fearful?
Page 86 - The only way to learn to do great things is to do small things well, patiently, loyally.
Page 179 - T^HE PROVERBS of Solomon the son of David, King of Israel ; To know wisdom and instruction ; to perceive the words of understanding; to receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity; to give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion...
Page 85 - In this existence, dry and wet Will overtake the best of men — . Some little skift o...