John Morley: “Address to boys of Marlborough College on value of simple habits.”

A rendering less apt for this occasion finds favour with some scholars, that true virtue can never be restored to those who have once fallen away from it.

Can wool repair The colours that it lost when soaked with dye?

True merit once resigned, No trick nor feint will serve as well.

If they, situated exactly as we are, decline to join, we are not bound single-handed to make up the deficiencies of the rest.