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01c. 1726 AD

Backsliding Israel, bear the voice Of thy forgiving God; Nor force such goodness to exert The terrors of the rod. Thus saith the Lord, “My mercy flows, An unexhausted stream; And after all its millions saved, Its sway is still supreme.” Own but the follies thou hast done, And mourn thy sins in dust, And soon thy trembling heart shall learn To hope, and love, and trust.

Philip Doddridge / quote

02c. 1789 AD

How wise a short retreat to steal, The vanity of life to feel, And from its cares to fly: To act one calm, domestic scene, Earth’s bustle and the grave between, Retire, and learn to die!

Hannah More / quote

03c. 1765 AD

Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connexion, knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, The mere materials with which wisdom builds, Till smooth’d and squared, and fitted to its place, Does but encumber whom it seems t’ enrich. Knowledge is proud that he has learn’d so much, Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

William Cowper / quote

04In print by 1888 AD

There is a poor Blind Man, who every day, In summer sunshine, or in winter’s rain, Duly as tolls the bell to the high fane, Explores, with faltering footsteps, his dark way, To kneel before his Maker, and to hear The chanted service pealing full and clear. Ask why, alone, in the same spot he kneels Through the long year? Oh! the wide world is cold, As dark to him; here, he no longer feels His sad bereavement—Faith and Hope uphold His heart—he feels not he is poor and blind, Amid the unpitying tumult of mankind: As thro’ the aisles the choral anthems roll, His soul is in the choirs above the skies, And songs, far off, of angel companies. Oh! happy, if the Rich—the Vain—the Proud— The plumed Actors in life’s motley crowd,— Since pride is dust, and life itself a span,— Would learn one Lesson from a poor Blind Man.

Lisle Bowles (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

05In print by 1888 AD

Teach me in times of deep distress To own Thy hand, my God! And in submissive silence learn The lessons of Thy rod.

Heginbotham (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

06In print by 1888 AD

O ye, whom, struggling on life’s craggy road, With obstacles and dangers, secret foes Supplant, false friends betray, disastrous rage Of elements, of war, of civil broil Brings down to Poverty’s cold floor, while grief Preys on the heart, and dims the sinking eye; Faint not! There is, who rules the storm, whose hand Feeds the young ravens, nor permits blind chance To close one sparrow’s flagging wing in death. Trust in the rock of ages. Now, even now He speaks, and all is calm. Or if, to prove Your inmost soul, the hurricane still spread Its licensed ravages. He whispers hope, Earnest of comfort; and through blackest night Bids keen-eyed Faith on heaven’s pure sunshine gaze, And learn the glories of her future home.

Gisborne (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

07In print by 1888 AD

Of the deep learning of the schools of yore The reverend pastor hath a golden stock; Yet with a vain display of useless lore, Or sapless doctrine never will he mock The better cravings of his simple flock; But faithfully their humble shepherd guides Where streams eternal gush from Calvary’s rock; For well he knows not learning’s purest tides Can quench the immortal thirst that in the soul abides.

Mrs. Little (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

08In print by 1888 AD

Of the deep learning in the schools of yore, The reverend pastor hath a golden stock; Yet, with a vain display of useless lore, Or sapless doctrine, never will he mock The better cravings of his simple flock; But faithfully their humble shepherd guides Where streams eternal gush from Calvary’s rock; For well he knows, not learning’s purest tides Can quench the immortal thirst that in the soul abides.

Mrs. Little (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

09In print by 1888 AD

“Peace,” shall the world outwearied ever see Its universal reign? Will states, will kings, Put down these murderous and unholy things, Which fill the earth with blood and misery? Will nations learn that love—not enmity— Is heaven’s first lesson—which beneath the wings Of mercy, brooding over land and sea, Fills earth with joy by its soft ministerings? ’Twere a sad prospect—’twere a vista dark As midnight—could this wearied mortal eye, Through the dim mists that veil futurity, Discern not that heaven-bright though distant spark, Lighted by prophecy, whose ray sublime Sheds a soft gleam of hope o’er the dull path of time. I hate that noisy drum, it is a sound That tells of war, of bondage, and I blush That liberty had ever cause to rush Into a warrior’s arms; that right e’er found Asylum in the furious field. Not so The holy crowns of genuine glory grow; Not there should they who bear the badge serene Of Him who was the Prince of Peace, be seen; Can such His faithful followers be?—Oh no! His laurels are not drenched in blood,—but green And beautiful as spring:—His arms are love And mercy and forgiveness; and with them He rules the nations’ mighty destinies And gently leads us to our homes above.

Dr. Bowring (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

10In print by 1888 AD

No studied eloquence was there displayed, Nor poetry of language lent its aid; But plain the words that from the preacher came; A preacher young, and all unknown to fame; While youth and age a listening ear inclined, To learn the way the pearl of price to find.

Elizabeth Bogart (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

11In print by 1888 AD

And when religious sects ran mad, He held, in spite of all his learning, That if a man’s belief is bad, It will not be improved by burning.

Praed (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

12In print by 1888 AD

With ineffectual toil, the Pow’r Supreme I sought along the mead which flow’rets bore; Thro’ a dense woodland;—by a mazy stream;— On heights;—in valleys;—by the wavy shore; Nor God I found within the solar beam; Nor in night’s radiance. What I could explore, I saw, with proofs of His existence teem; His certain stamp it had, but nothing more! But thou, Religion! can’st unveil His face! Shall, then, man’s bosom feel no love for thee, And seek thee not within thy hallow’d place? How clearly there the eye of Faith can see The ever-living God of Truth—Love—Grace! There man can learn to meet Eternity!

Rev. W. Pulling (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

13In print by 1888 AD

O trembling, learn That Peter, too, was chosen by his Lord, Admonished, and forewarned, and resolute, And sworn to persevere in righteousness; Yet in the hour of trial, Peter fell. Into temptation lead us not, O God! But with Thy hand deliver us from ill!

Cockburn (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

14In print by 1888 AD

Such is war! O heavens! when will the spiritual Sun arise, And with His beams effulgent, drive away The mists of error that so long have hung Their dark, unnatural drapery o’er the mind, That broods o’er human carnage! when will man Turn from the path of Cain, and learn to see A brother without hating?

Rufus Dawes (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

15In print by 1888 AD

What highest prize hath woman won In science or in art? What mightiest work by woman done, Boasts city, field, or mart? “She hath no Raphael,” Painting saith; “No Newton,” Learning cries; Show us her Steam-ship! her Macbeth, Her thought-won victories! Hail boastful man! though worthy are Thy deeds when thou art true, Things worthier still and holier far, Our sister yet will do; For this the worth of woman shows, On every peopled shore, That still as man in wisdom grows, He honours her the more. Oh! not for wealth, or fame, or pow’r, Hath man’s weak angel striven, But silent as the growing flower, To make of earth a heav’n! And in her garden of the sun, Heaven’s brightest rose shall bloom; For woman’s best is unbegun! Her advent yet to come.

Ebenezer Elliot (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

16In print by 1881 AD

The vices of old age have the stiffness of it too; and as it is the unfittest time to learn in, so the unfitness of it to unlearn will be found much greater.

South (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

17In print by 1881 AD

In America we see a country of which it has been truly said that in no other are there so few men of great learning and so few men of great ignorance.

Buckle (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

18In print by 1881 AD

Depend upon it, you would gain unspeakably if you would learn with me to see some of the poetry and the pathos, the tragedy and the comedy, lying in the experience of a human soul that looks out through dull gray eyes, and that speaks in a voice of quite ordinary tones.

George Eliot (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

19c. 1835 AD

Conscience enables us not merely to learn the right by experiment and induction, but intuitively and in advance of experiment; so, in addition to the experimental way whereby we learn justice from the facts of human history, we have a transcendental way, and learn it from the facts of human nature, and from immediate consciousness.

Theodore Parker / quote

20In print by 1881 AD

How beautifully is it ordered, that as many thousands work for one, so must every individual bring his labor to make the whole! The highest is not to despise the lowest, nor the lowest to envy the highest; each must live in all and by all. Who will not work, neither shall he eat. So God has ordered that men, being in need of each other, should learn to love each other and bear each other's burdens.

G. A. Sala (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

21c. 1736 AD

Regimen is better than physic. Every one should be his own physician. We ought to assist, and not to force nature: but more especially we should learn to suffer, grow old, and die. Some things are salutary, and others hurtful. Eat with moderation what you know by experience agrees with your constitution. Nothing is good for the body but what we can digest. What medicine can procure digestion? Exercise. What will recruit strength? Sleep. What will alleviate incurable evils? Patience.

Francis M. Voltaire / quote

22c. 1746 AD

I am always for getting a boy forward in his learning, for that is sure good. I would let him at first read any English book which happens to engage his attention; because you have done a great deal when you have brought him to have entertainment from a book. He'll get better books afterwards.

Samuel Johnson / quote

23In print by 1881 AD

The essential difference between a good and a bad education is this, that the former draws on the child to learn by making it sweet to him; the latter drives the child to learn, by making it sour to him if he does not.

Charles Buxton (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

24c. 1593 AD

'Tis of great importance to the honor of learning that men of business should know erudition is not like a lark, which flies high, and delights in nothing but singing; but that 't is rather like a hawk, which soars aloft indeed, but can stoop when she finds it convenient, and seize her prey.

Francis Bacon / quote