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01c. 1746 AD

What we hope ever to do with ease we may learn first to do with diligence.

Samuel Johnson / quote

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02In print by 1893 AD

Wise sayings are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.

John Morley (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

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03In print by 1893 AD

Without tact you can learn nothing. Tact teaches you when to be silent. Inquirers who are always inquiring never learn anything.

I. Disraeli (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

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04In print by 1893 AD

Wouldst thou the life of souls discern? / Nor human wisdom nor divine / Helps thee by aught beside to learn; / Love is life's only sign.

Keble (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

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05In print by 1893 AD

In conversation humour is more than wit, easiness, more than knowledge; few desire to learn, or to think they need it; all desire to be pleased, or, if not, to be easy.

Unresolved attribution · printed label: Sir W. Temple · Unknown culture / quote

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06In print by 1893 AD

A man eminent in learning has not even a little virtue if he fears to practise it. What precious things can be shown to a blind man when he holds a lamp in his hand?

Unresolved attribution · printed label: Hitopadesa · Unknown culture / quote

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07In print by 1893 AD

Good actions lead to success, as good medicines to a cure: a healthy man is joyful, and a diligent man attains learning; a just man gains the reward of his virtue.

Unresolved attribution · printed label: Hitopadesa · Unknown culture / quote

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08c. 1790 AD

Certain books seem to be written, not that we might learn from them, but in order that we might see how much the author knows.

Goethe / quote

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09In print by 1893 AD

He that is ambitious of fame destroys it. He that increaseth not his knowledge diminishes it. He that uses the crown of learning as an instrument of gain will pass away.

Unresolved attribution · printed label: Talmud · Unknown culture / quote

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10In print by 1893 AD

If with a stranger thou discourse, first learn, By strictest observation, to discern If he be wiser than thyself, if so, Be dumb, and rather choose by him to know; But if thyself perchance the wiser be, Then do thou speak, that he may learn by thee.

Unresolved attribution · printed label: Randolph · Unknown culture / quote

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11c. 1790 AD

How can we learn to know ourselves? By reflection, never, but by our actions. Attempt to do your duty, and you will immediately find what is in you.

Goethe / quote

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12In print by 1893 AD

Gross ignorance produces a dogmatic spirit. He who knows nothing thinks he can teach others what he has himself just been learning. He who knows much scarcely believes that what he is saying is unknown to others, and consequently speaks with more hesitation.

Unresolved attribution · printed label: La Bruyère · Unknown culture / quote

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13In print by 1893 AD

He that rectifies a crooked stick bends it the contrary way, so must he that would reform a vice learn to affect its mere contrary, and in time he shall see the springing blossoms of a happy restoration.

Unresolved attribution · printed label: R. Chamberlain · Unknown culture / quote

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14In print by 1893 AD

Learning dissipates many doubts, and causes things otherwise invisible to be seen, and is the eye of everyone who is not absolutely blind.

Unresolved attribution · printed label: Hitopadesa · Unknown culture / quote

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15In print by 1893 AD

Liberality attended with mild language; learning without pride; valour united with mercy; wealth accompanied with a generous contempt of it—these four qualities are with difficulty acquired.

Unresolved attribution · printed label: Hitopadesa · Unknown culture / quote

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16In print by 1893 AD

Wickedness, by whomsoever committed, is odious, but most of all in men of learning; for learning is the weapon with which Satan is combated, and when a man is made captive with arms in his hand his shame is more excessive.

Unresolved attribution · printed label: Sa’dī · Unknown culture / quote

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17In print by 1893 AD

Learning is like Scanderbeg’s sword, either good or bad according to him who hath it: an excellent weapon, if well used; otherwise, like a sharp razor in the hand of a child.

Unresolved attribution · printed label: R. Chamberlain · Unknown culture / quote

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18In print by 1893 AD

He who has more learning than goodness is like a tree with many branches and few roots, which the first wind throws down; whilst he whose works are greater than his knowledge is like a tree with many roots and fewer branches, which all the winds of heaven cannot uproot.

Unresolved attribution · printed label: Talmud · Unknown culture / quote

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19c. 1619 AD

No man is the wiser for his learning. It may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon, but wit and wisdom are born with a man.

John Selden / quote

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20In print by 1893 AD

Each man can learn something from his neighbour; at least he can learn to have patience with him—to live and let live.

Kingsley (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

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21In print by 1893 AD

It is by being conversant with the inventions of others that we learn to invent, as by reading the thoughts of others we learn to think.

Joshua Reynolds (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

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22In print by 1893 AD

Learning is an addition beyond / Nobility of birth; honour of blood, / Without the ornament of knowledge, is / A glorious ignorance.

Shirley (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

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23In print by 1893 AD

Man becomes greater in proportion as he learns to know himself and his faculty. Let him once become conscious of what he is, and he will soon also learn to be what he should.

Schelling (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

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24In print by 1893 AD

Rich men without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.

Solon (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

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