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- No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance, or to extinguish the desire of fond…
- If a man has a science to learn he must regularly and resolutely advance.
- Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it.
- He that hopes to look back hereafter with satisfaction upon past years must learn to know the present value of single minutes, and endeavour to…
- Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a…
- In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it; for no species…
- Exactness is first obtained, and afterwards elegance. But diction, merely vocal, is always in its childhood. As no man leaves his eloquence behind him, the…
- Life is surely given us for higher purposes than to gather what our ancestors have wisely thrown away, and to learn what is of no…
- No man is much regarded by the rest of the world. He that considers how little he dwells upon the condition of others, will learn…
- All knowledge is of itself of some value. There is nothing so minute or inconsiderable, that I would not rather know it than not. In…
- What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
- All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse,…
- We seldom learn the true want of what we have till it is discovered that we can have no more.
- Learn that the present hour alone is man's.
- In order that all men might be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
- In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
- The longer we live, and the more we think, the higher value we learn to put on the friendship and tenderness of parents and friends.…
- The man whose genius qualifies him for great undertakings must at least be content to learn from books the present state of human knowledge; that…
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