Histories make men wise poets witty the mathematics subtile natural philosophy deep morals grave logic and rhetoric able to contend.
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Sir Francis Bacon
There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.
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Cicero
The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars nor its great scholars great men.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn so change of studies a dull brain.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
You are in some brown study.
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John Lyly
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To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?" Cicero, Orator, 46 BCBy way of...
If you aspire to the highest place it is no disgrace to stop at the second or even the third place.
It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.
Old age is by nature rather talkative.
Old age especially an honoured old age has so great authority that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.
