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01c. 1590 AD

For where is any author in the world Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye? Learning is but an adjunct to ourself.

William Shakespeare / quote

02c. 1590 AD

The young gentleman, according to Fates and Destinies and such odd sayings, the Sisters Three and such branches of learning, is indeed deceased; or, as you would say in plain terms, gone to heaven.

William Shakespeare / quote

03c. 1590 AD

An unlesson'd girl, unschool'd, unpractised; Happy in this, she is not yet so old But she may learn.

William Shakespeare / quote

04c. 1590 AD

All his faults observed, Set in a note-book, learn'd, and conn'd by rote.

William Shakespeare / quote

05c. 1593 AD

Men's thoughts are much according to their inclination, their discourse and speeches according to their learning and infused opinions.

Francis Bacon / quote

06c. 1605 AD

Underneath this sable hearse Lies the subject of all verse,— Sidney's sister, Pembroke's mother. Death, ere thou hast slain another, Learn'd and fair and good as she, Time shall throw a dart at thee.

Ben Jonson / quote

07c. 1608 AD

Out of too much learning become mad.

Robert Burton / quote

08c. 1619 AD

No man is the wiser for his learning.

John Selden / quote

09c. 1634 AD

Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.

Thomas Fuller / quote

10c. 1641 AD

Enflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue; stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots, dear to God, and famous to all ages.

John Milton / quote

11c. 1653 AD

Learn to read slow: all other graces Will follow in their proper places.

William Walker / quote

12c. 1688 AD

Men of polite learning and a liberal education.

Mathew Henry / quote

13c. 1724 AD

Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.

Edward Young / quote

14c. 1716 AD

Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.

Alexander Pope / quote

15c. 1716 AD

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again.

Alexander Pope / quote

16c. 1716 AD

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. 'T is not enough no harshness gives offence,— The sound must seem an echo to the sense.

Alexander Pope / quote

17c. 1716 AD

Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view, The learn'd reflect on what before they knew.

Alexander Pope / quote

18c. 1716 AD

How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail.

Alexander Pope / quote

19c. 1716 AD

So perish all, whose breast ne'er learn'd to glow For others' good, or melt at others' woe.

Alexander Pope / quote

20c. 1716 AD

Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.

Alexander Pope / quote

21c. 1716 AD

Yet taught by time, my heart has learn'd to glow For others' good, and melt at others' woe.

Alexander Pope / quote

22c. 1710 AD

Whence is thy learning? Hath thy toil O'er books consum'd the midnight oil?

John Gay / quote

23c. 1748 AD

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

Benjamin Franklin / maxim

24c. 1743 AD

Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.

Thomas Gray / quote