Quotes by John Frederick Boyes

John Frederick Boyes

English scholar of classics

Lived from: 1811 - 1879

Born: 10 february 1811 Died: 26 may 1879

  • It would be a great advantage to some schoolmasters if they would steal two hours a day from their pupils and give their own minds the benefit of the robbery.
  • It is vain to be always looking toward the future and never acting toward it.

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  • Friends should be very delicate and careful in administering pity as medicine, when enemies use the same article as poison.
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  • It would be a great advantage to some schoolmasters if they would steal two hours a day from their pupils and give their own minds the benefit of the robbery.
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  • There is scarcely a man who is not conscious of the benefits which his own mind has received from the performance of single acts of benevolence. How strange that so few of us try a course of the same medicine!
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  • It is vain to be always looking toward the future and never acting toward it.
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