Lord Baden-Powell

I WAS A BOY ONCE. Tweets from the 19th and 20th centuries.

[Lord Baden-Powell @RSSBadenPowell]

Scouting is not an abstruse or difficult science: rather it is a jolly game if you take it in the right light. #c1920

[Lord Baden-Powell @RSSBadenPowell]

Happiness is not mere pleasure, not the outcome of wealth. It is the result of active work rather than passive enjoyment of pleasure. #c1930

[Lord Baden-Powell @RSSBadenPowell]

[Scouting] is educative, and (like Mercy) it is apt to benefit him that giveth as well as him that receives. #c1920

[Lord Baden-Powell @RSSBadenPowell]

A country divided against itself cannot stand. #c1922

[Lord Baden-Powell @RSSBadenPowell]

It is the Patrol System that makes the Troop, and all Scouting for that matter, a real co-operative matter. #c1920

[Lord Baden-Powell @RSSBadenPowell]

...the Scout symbol of Peace is the Golden Arrow. Carry it fast and far so that all men may know the Brotherhood of Man. #c1929

[Lord Baden-Powell @RSSBadenPowell]

The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others. #c1940

[Lord Baden-Powell @RSSBadenPowell]

A sense of humour will pull you through this danger as well as through many a bad time. #c1922

[Lord Baden-Powell @RSSBadenPowell]

...make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy, so that you can be useful and so can enjoy life when you are a man #c1941

[Lord Baden-Powell @RSSBadenPowell]

Happiness doesn’t come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. #c1941

[Lord Baden-Powell @RSSBadenPowell]

...don't be tempted like so many to rush to extreme views before you have seen something of the world. #c1922

[Lord Baden-Powell @RSSBadenPowell]

It is not merely the 'being' good, but it is the 'doing' good that counts. #c1914

[Lord Baden-Powell @RSSBadenPowell]

The sound of the night and companionship of the beasts and the birds make you feel a comrade of them all in the Brothership of Nature.#c1922

[Andy Denholm @WestCornforth]

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[Lord Baden-Powell @RSSBadenPowell]

A Scout's duty is to be useful and to help others. #c1908

[Lord Baden-Powell @RSSBadenPowell]

Many town living fellows never get to realise the beauty of Nature because they seldom see it. #c1922

[Lord Baden-Powell @RSSBadenPowell]

It does not require great expense or apparatus to devise new ideas; the boys themselves can often help with suggestions. #c1920

[Lord Baden-Powell @RSSBadenPowell]

Let your ambition be not to see how much you can get out of work, but how much you can put into it. #c1922

[Lord Baden-Powell @RSSBadenPowell]

A Scout is a friend to all, and a brother to every other Scout, no matter to what country, class, or creed, the other may belong. #c1911