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01c. 1751 AD

And learn the luxury of doing good.

Oliver Goldsmith / quote

02c. 1751 AD

Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace The day's disasters in his morning face; Full well they laugh'd with counterfeited glee At all his jokes, for many a joke had he; Full well the busy whisper circling round Convey'd the dismal tidings when he frown'd. Yet was he kind, or if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault; The village all declar'd how much he knew, 'T was certain he could write and cipher too.

Oliver Goldsmith / quote

03c. 1751 AD

Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind; Though fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat To persuade Tommy Townshend to lend him a vote. Who too deep for his hearers still went on refining, And thought of convincing while they thought of dining: Though equal to all things, for all things unfit; Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit.

Oliver Goldsmith / quote

04c. 1751 AD

Taught by that Power that pities me, I learn to pity them.

Oliver Goldsmith / quote

05c. 1763 AD

Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.

Edmund Burke / quote

06c. 1763 AD

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

Edmund Burke / quote

07c. 1765 AD

Here the heart May give a useful lesson to the head, And Learning wiser grow without his books.

William Cowper / quote

08c. 1765 AD

Knowledge is proud that he has learn'd so much; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more. Books are not seldom talismans and spells.

William Cowper / quote

09c. 1783 AD

A progeny of learning.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan / quote

10c. 1806 AD

With just enough of learning to misquote.

Lord Byron / quote

11c. 1807 AD

Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong: They learn in suffering what they teach in song.

Percy Bysshe Shelley / quote

12c. 1844 AD

Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labour and to wait.

Henry W. Longfellow / quote

13c. 1844 AD

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

Henry W. Longfellow / quote

14c. 1844 AD

Something the heart must have to cherish, Must love and joy and sorrow learn; Something with passion clasp, or perish And in itself to ashes burn.

Henry W. Longfellow / quote

15c. 1809 AD

Wearing all that weight Of learning lightly like a flower.

Alfred Tennyson / quote

16c. 1851 AD

Then welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand, but go! Be our joys three-parts pain! Strive, and hold cheap the strain; Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the throe!

Robert Browning / quote

17c. 1851 AD

For life, with all it yields of joy and woe, And hope and fear (believe the aged friend), Is just our chance o' the prize of learning love,— How love might be, hath been indeed, and is.

Robert Browning / quote

18c. 1851 AD

What? Was man made a wheel-work to wind up, And be discharged, and straight wound up anew? No! grown, his growth lasts; taught, he ne'er forgets: May learn a thousand things, not twice the same.

Robert Browning / quote

19c. 1852 AD

Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die, But leave us still our old nobility.

Francis W. Bourdillon / quote

20c. 491 BC

Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old.

Æschylus / quote

21c. 445 BC

Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.

Euripides / quote

22Undated

Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.

Publius Syrus / maxim

23Undated

It is better to learn late than never.

Publius Syrus / maxim

24c. 51 AD

Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short he can do nothing at the prompting of nature only, but weep.

Pliny The Elder / quote