"As a hawk flieth not high with one……" — Roger Ascham
"As a hawk flieth not high with one wing, even so a man reacheth not to excellence with one tongue."
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18 Quotes by Roger Ascham
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Young children were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning.
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He that will write well in any tongue must follow this counsel of Aristotle: to speak as the common people…
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There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.
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Italianate Englishmen are incarnate devils ... for they first lustfully condemn God, then scornfully mock his word, and also spitefully…
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Mark all Mathematical heads which be wholly and only bent on these sciences, how solitary they be themselves, how unfit…
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Marke all Mathematicall heades, which be onely and wholy bent to those sciences, how solitarie they be themselues, how vnfit…
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Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.
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It is costly wisdom that is brought by experience.
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The least learned, for the most part, have been always most ready to write.
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In mine opinion, love is fitter than fear, gentleness better than beating, to bring up a child rightly in learning.
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To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do is style.
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A man, groundly learned already, may take much profit himself in using by epitome to draw other men’s works, for…
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More Excellence Quotes
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
— Aristotle
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,…
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate…
— Aristotle
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Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to…
— Aristotle
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Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason…
— Aristotle
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Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary…
— Walter Bagehot
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No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and…
— Charles Kendall Adams
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I'm a perfectionist. Sometimes I have to remind myself that it's okay if there are flaws here and there.
— Tyra Banks
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It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet…
— Joseph Addison
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We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are…
— Warren G. Bennis
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