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If I had more skill in what I'm attempting, I wouldn't need so much courage
If I had more skill in what I'm attempting, I wouldn't need so much courage
It is the worst of madness to learn what has to be unlearnt.
[Lat., Extremae est dementiae discere dediscenda.]
It is the worst of madness to learn what has to be unlearnt.
[Lat., Extremae est dementiae discere dediscenda.]
Consider that I laboured not for myself only, but for all them
that seek learning.
Consider that I laboured not for myself only, but for all them
that seek learning.
The green retreats
Of Academus.
The green retreats
Of Academus.
I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.
I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.
The languages, especially the dead,
The sciences, and most of all the abstruse,
The arts, at least read more
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.
Learning is a kind of natural food for the mind.
[Lat., Doctrina est ingenii naturale quoddam pabulum.]
Learning is a kind of natural food for the mind.
[Lat., Doctrina est ingenii naturale quoddam pabulum.]
You learn something every day if you pay attention.
You learn something every day if you pay attention.
The life so short, the crafts so long to learn.
The life so short, the crafts so long to learn.
