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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people
A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people
When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.
When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.
Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.
Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.
He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel
force,
Something better than his dog, read more
He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel
force,
Something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse.
Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the read more
Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual.
Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining, and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction. Therefore, read more
Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining, and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction. Therefore, let your soul exalt your reason to the height of passion!
And you, brave Cobham! to the latest breath
Shall feel your ruling passion strong in death.
And you, brave Cobham! to the latest breath
Shall feel your ruling passion strong in death.
Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back
Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back
