| Author |
Quotes |
| Virgil | Oh you who are born of the blood of the gods, Trojan son of Anchises, easy is the descent to Hell; the door of dark Dis stands open day and night. But to retrace your steps and come out to the air above, that is work, that is labor! |
| Vissarion Belinsky | Do not worry about the incarnation of ideas. If you are a poet, your works will contain them without your knowledge -- they will be both moral and national if you follow your inspiration freely. |
| Walter Bagehot | A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself. |
| Wilfred Owen | What passing bells for these who die as cattle?Only the monstrous anger of the guns.Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattleCan patter out their hasty orisons. - Anthem for Doomed Youth. |
| William J Durant | Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn. |
| William King | The death of Dr. Hudson is a loss to the republick of letters. |
| Francis Bacon | The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body. |
| Francis Bacon | Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities, the freshmen bring a little in, the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates... |
| Francis Bacon | I would live to study, and not study to live. |
| John Milton | Here at lastWe shall be free,the Almighty hath not builtHere for his envy, will not drive us hence,Here we may reign secure, and in my choiceTo reign is worth ambition though in Hell,Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven. - Paradise Lost. |
| Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency. |
| Lord Alfred Tennyson | If thou shouldst never see my face again,Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayerThan this world dreams of. - The Passing of Arthur. |
| Lord Alfred Tennyson | I hold it true,what'er befall,I feel it, when I sorrow most,'Tis better to have loved and lostThan never to have loved at all. - In Memoriam. |
| Lord Alfred Tennyson | Till last by Philip's farm I flowTo join the brimming river,For men may come and men may go,But I go on for ever. - The Brook. |
| Mark Twain | Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of a man -- the biography of the man himself cannot be written. |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | People do not deserve to have good writings, they are so pleased with the bad. |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough of literature. |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | I can find my biography in every fable that I read. |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | People do not deserve to have good writings, they are so pleased with bad. |
| Samuel Johnson | The chief glory of every people arises from its authors. |
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