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In youth open your mind, And let all learning in; Words the head does not shape Are worthless, out and in. Words wit has not salted,No nearer the heart than the lip, Are nothing more than wind, A puppy's insolent yelp.
Young children [are] sooner allured by love than driven by beating to attain good learning.
I am of the firm belief that everybody could write books and I never understand why they don't. After all, everybody speaks.Once the grammar has been learnt it is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say.
Beautyand the lust for learning have yet to be allied.
A design career is a process of learning better and better what you know instinctively.
Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning doth make thee mad.
Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire, That's a'the learning I desire.
Reading is the basics for all learning.
Learning, that cobweb of the brain, Profane, erroneous, and vain.
A man must serve his time to every trade Save censurecritics all are ready made. Take hackneyed jokes from Miller, got by rote, With just enough of learning to misquote.
Wear your learning, like your watch in a private pocket: and donot merely pull it out and strike it, merely toshow that you have one.
People mutht be amuthed. They can't be alwayth a learning, nor yet they can't be alwayth a working, they an't made for it.
Shakespearewas the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. All images of Nature were still present to him, and he drew them, not laboriously, but luckily; when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation: he was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read Nature; he looked inwards, and found her there He is many times flat, insipid; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great.
Bees are sometimes drowned in the honey which they collectso some writers are lost in their collected learning.
Hay hombres que de su ciencia tienen la cabeza llena; hay sabios de todas menas, mas digo, sin ser muy ducho: es mejor que aprender mucho el aprender cosas buenas. There are some men who have their heads full up with the things they know. Wise men come in all sizes, but I don't need so much sense to say
Anti-classic art, if it may even be called an art, is merely theart oftheidle.It isthe doctrine ofthosewho desireto produce without working, to know without learning.
There is more learning in their [Chinese] languagethan in anyother, fromthe immensenumberof their characters. It is only more difficult from its rudeness, as there is more labour in hewing down a tree with a stone than with an axe.
The most important single thing in publishing is the English sentence, and the editor who cannot contemplate it again and again with a sense of wonder has not yet gained respect for the complexity of learning.
I've had a tough time learning how to act like a Congressman. Today I accidentally spent some of my own money.
It is difficult to thinkof any circumstances where learning may be said to be impossible.
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.
I shall never be persuaded that God hath shut up all light of learning within the lantern of Aristotle's brain.
Sempre que os homens sabidos lhe diziam palavras dif|ceis, ele sa|a logrado. Sobressaltava-se escutando-as. Evidentemente so serviam para encobrir ladroeiras. Mas eram bonitas. Whenever men with book learning used big words in dealing with him, he came out the loser. It startled him just to hear those words.Obviously they were just a cover for robbery. But they sounded nice.
French truth,Dutch prowess,British policy, Hibernian learning, Scotch civility, Spaniards'dispatch,Danes' wit, are mainly seen in thee.
The people will live on. The learning and blundering will live on. They will be tricked and sold and again sold And go back to the nourishing earth for rootholds.
Ihave justcausetomakea pitiful defence of poor poetry, which from almost the highest estimation of learning is 790
Of such deep learning little had he need, Ne yet of Latin, ne of Greek that breed Doubts 'mongst divines, and difference of texts, From when arise diversity of sects, And hateful heresies.
The process of learning is accompanied by alternations of pain and brief quickenings that resemble pain.
Some, for renown, on scraps of learning doat, And think they grow immortal as they quote.
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