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The green retreats Of Academus.— AKENSIDE — Pleasures of the Imagination. Canto I. L. 591.
Learning hath his infancy, when it is but beginning and almost childish; then his youth, when it is luxuriant and juvenile; then his strength of years, when it is solid and reduced; and lastly his old age, when it waxeth dry and exhaust.— BACON — Essays Civil and Moral.
Of Vicissitude of Things.
Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.— BACON — Essays. Of Studies.
Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.— BURKE — Reflections on the Revolution in
France. Out of too much learning become mad.— BURTON — Anatomy of Melancholy. Pt. III. Sec. 4. Memb. 1.
Subsec. 2. And wisely tell what hour o' th' day The clock does strike by Algebra.— BUTLER — Hudibras. Pt. I. Canto I. L. 125.
In mathematics he was greater Than Tycho Brahe, or Erra Pater; For he, by geometric scale, Could take the size of pots of ale.— BUTLER — Hudibras. Pt. I. Canto I. L. 119.
The languages, especially the dead, The sciences, and most of all the abstruse, The arts, at least all such as could be said To be the most remote from common use, In all these he was much and deeply read.— BYRON — Don Juan. Canto I. St. 40.
S. And gladly wolde he lerne and gladly teche.— CHAUCER — Canterbury Tales. Prologue. L. 308.
Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous. и.— CONFUCIUS — Analects. Bk. II. Ch. XV.
There is the love of knowing without the love of learning; the beclouding here leads to dissipation of mind.— CONFUCIUS — Analects. Bk. XVII. Ch. VIII.
Here the heart May give a useful lesson to the head, And learning wiser grow without his books. Winter— COWPER — The Task. Bk. VI. Walk at Noon. L. 85.
There is no other Royal path which leads to geometry. EUCLID TO PTOLEMY I. See Proclus' Commentaries on Euclid's Elements. Bk. II. Ch. IV. Learning by study must be won; 'Twas ne'er entail'd from son to son.— GAY — The Pack Horse and Carrier. L. 41.
Whence is thy learning? Hath thy toil O'er books consum'd the midnight oil?— GAY — Shepherd and Philosopher. L. 15.
I've studied now Philosophy And Jurisprudence, Medicine And even, alas, Theology From end to end with labor keen; And here, poor fool; with all my lore I stand no wiser than before.— GOETHE — Faust. I. Night. Bayard
Taylor's trans. And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, That one small head should carry all he knew.— GOLDSMITH — The Deserted Village. L. 215.
While words of learned length and thundering sound Amaz'd the gazing rustics rang'd around.— GOLDSMITH — The Deserted Village. L. 211.
Yet, he was kind, or, if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault; The village all declar'd how much he knew, 'Twas certain he could write and cipher too.— GOLDSMITH — The Deserted Village. L. 205.
Men of polite learning and a liberal education.— MATHEW HENRY — Commentaries. The Acts. Ch. X.
There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail.— SAM'L JOHNSON — Vanity of Human Wishes. L. 159.
The Lord of Learning who upraised mankind From being silent brutes to singing men.— LELAND — The Music-lesson of Confucius.
Thou art an heyre to fayre lyving, that is nothing, if thou be disherited of learning, for better were it to thee to inherite righteousnesse then riches, and far more seemly were it for thee to haue thy Studie full of bookes, then thy pursse full of mony.— LYLY — Euphues. Letters to a Young
Gentleman in Naples named Alcius. A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring; Their shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again.— POPE — Essays on Criticism. L. 215.
Ask of the Learn'd the way? The Learn'd are blind; This bids to serve, and that to shun mankind; Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it Pleasure, and Contentment these.— POPE — Essay on Man. Ep. IV. L. 19.
Nosse velint omnes, mercedem solvere nemo. All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price. S.— JUVENAL — Satiræ. VII. 157.
Homines, dum docent, discunt. Men learn while they teach.— SENECA — Epistolæ Ad Lucilium. VII.
Discipulus est priori posterior dies. Each day is the scholar of yesterday.— SYRUS — Maxims.
Ils n'ont rien appris, ni rien oublie. They have learned nothing, and they have forgotten nothing. p. Attributed to TALLEYRAND. Pardieu! les plus grands clercs ne sont pas les plus finis. Indeed the greatest scholars are not the wisest men. q. REGNIER. Que nuist savoir tousjours et tousjours apprendre, fust ce D'un sot, d'une pot, d'une que-doufle D'un mouffe, d'un pantoufle. What harm in learning and getting knowledge even from a sot, a pot, a fool, a mitten or a slipper.— RABELAIS — Pantagruel. III. 16.