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For there is a great difference in delivery of the mathematics , which are the most abstracted of knowledges, and policy , which is the most immersed. And howsoever contention hath been moved , touching a uniformity of method in multiformity of matter, yet we see how that opinion, besides the weakness of it, hath been of ill desert towards learning, as that which taketh the way to reduce learning to certain empty and barren generalities; being but the very husks and shells of sciences, all the kernel being forced out and expulsed with the torture and press of the method.

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Learning takes us through many states of life, but it fails utterly in the hour of danger and temptation. Then faith alone saves.

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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.

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Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile.

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Enflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue; stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots, dear to God, and famous to all ages.

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There were no object lessons, and the studies of bookkeeping and French were pursued (but never effectually overtaken.

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Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.

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All learning is derived from things previously known.

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O but we dreamed to mend Whatever mischief seemed To afflict mankind, but now That winds of winter blow Learn that we were crack-pated when we dreamed.

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Wearing all that weight Of learning lightly like a flower.

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To appreciate the beauty of a snow flake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold.

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The test of good education is seeing how it behaves in a fight.

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Remember that ofttimes the wisdom of God appears as foolishness to men, but the greatest single lesson we can learn in mortality is that when God speaks and a man obeys, that man will always be right.

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The book written against fame and learning has the author's name on the title-page.

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Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old.

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Education is not received. It is achieved.

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It is always in season for old men to learn.

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In the pursuit of learning, every day something is acquired. In the pursuit of Tao, every day something is dropped.

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This very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men, and we are always learning to read it. A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.

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To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

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