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01c. 1844 AD

"Wouldst thou," so the helmsman answered, / "Learn the secret of the sea? / Only those who brave its dangers / Comprehend its mystery!"

Henry W. Longfellow / quote

02In print by 1893 AD

Your learning, like the lunar beam, affords light but not heat.

Young (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

03In print by 1893 AD

As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.

Froude (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

04In print by 1893 AD

Attention makes the genius; all learning, fancy, and science depend on it.

Willmott (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

05In print by 1893 AD

Be our joy three-parts pain! Strive, and hold cheap the strain; / Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the throe!

Browning (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

06c. 1710 AD

Dogmatic jargon, learn'd by heart, / Trite sentences, hard terms of art, / To vulgar ears seem so profound, / They fancy learning in the sound.

John Gay / quote

07In print by 1893 AD

Do not train boys to learning by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be the better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.

Plato (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

08In print by 1893 AD

From the sum / Of duty, blooms sweeter and more divine / The fair ideal of the race, than comes / From glittering gains of learning.

Lewis Morris (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

09In print by 1893 AD

He is not a true man of science who does not bring some sympathy to his studies, and expect to learn something by behaviour as well as application.

Thoreau (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

10c. 1746 AD

"Hoc age" is the great rule, whether you are serious or merry; whether ... learning science or duty from a folio, or floating on the Thames. Intentions must be gathered from acts.

Samuel Johnson / quote

11In print by 1893 AD

I watch the wheels of Nature's mazy plan, / And learn the future by the past of man.

Campbell (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

12In print by 1893 AD

It would be some advantage to live a primitive and frontier life, though in the midst of an outward civilisation, if only to learn what are the gross necessaries of life, and what methods have been taken to obtain them.

Thoreau (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

13In print by 1893 AD

Languages are more properly to be called vehicles of learning than learning itself.... True knowledge consists in knowing things, not words.

Lady Montagu (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

14In print by 1893 AD

Learn that nonsense is none the less nonsense because it is in rhyme; and that rhyme without a purpose or a thought that has not been better expressed before is a public nuisance, only to be tolerated because it is good for trade.

C. Fitzhugh (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

15c. 1710 AD

Learning by study must be won, / 'Twas ne'er entail'd from son to son.

John Gay / quote

16In print by 1893 AD

Learning, like money, may be of so base a coin as to be utterly devoid of use; or, if sterling, may require good management to make it serve the purpose of sense and happiness.

Shenstone (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

17c. 1692 AD

Let him be kept from paper, pen, and ink; / So may he cease to write, and learn to think.

Matthew Prior / quote

18In print by 1893 AD

Life with all it yields of joy and woe, / And hope and fear, / Is just our chance o' the prize of learning love, / How love might be, hath been indeed, and is.

Browning (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

19In print by 1893 AD

Man can only learn to rise from the consideration of that which he cannot surmount.

Jean Paul (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

20In print by 1893 AD

Men must leave the ingle-nook, / And for a larger wisdom brook / Experience of a harder law, / And learn humility and awe.

Dr. Walter Smith (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

21c. 1619 AD

No man is the wiser for his learning.... Wit and wisdom are born with a man.

John Selden / quote

22c. 1748 AD

The ancients tell us what is best; but we must learn of the moderns what is fittest.

Benjamin Franklin / quote

23c. 1746 AD

The longer we live and the more we think, the higher value we learn to put on the friendship and tenderness of parents and of friends.

Samuel Johnson / quote

24In print by 1893 AD

The use of knowledge in our sex, besides the amusement of solitude, is to moderate the passions, and learn to be contented with a small expense, which are the certain effects of a studious life; and it may be preferable to that fame which men have engrossed to themselves, and will not suffer us to share.

Lady Montagu (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote