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“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! - Aeneid, The.”
Virgil Quotes |
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“Vigny, more secretAs if in his tower of ivory, retired before noon."N.B.: Vigny refers to Comte de Vigny, who locked himself in an ivory tower to work without the influences of man and desire. - Pensees d'Aout.”
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Quotes |
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“A novel is never anything but a philosophy put into images.”
Albert Camus Quotes |
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“Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.”
Flannery O'Connor Quotes |
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“A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.”
Thomas Carruthers Quotes |
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“Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.”
Jacques Barzun Quotes |
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“A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.”
Cicero Quotes |
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“This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.”
Jean Jacques Rousseau Quotes |
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“At last is Hector stretch'd upon the plain,Who fear'd no vengeance for Patroclus slain:Then, Prince! You should have fear'd, what now you feel;Achilles absent was Achilles still:Yet a short space the great avenger stayed,Then low in dust thy strength and glory laid. - Iliad, The.”
Homer Quotes |
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“As I was going up the stairI met a man who wasn't thereHe wasn't there again todayI wish, I wish he'd stay away. - The Psychoed.”
Hughes Mearns Quotes |
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“I am never long, even in the society of her I love, without yearning for the company of my lamp and my library.”
Lord Byron Quotes |
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“I would live to study, and not study to live.”
Francis Bacon Quotes |
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“In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.”
Dalai Lama Quotes |
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“The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.”
Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes |
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“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.”
Vissarion Belinsky Quotes |
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“Only the more rugged mortals should attempt to keep up with current literature.”
George Age Quotes |
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“The schoolmaster is abroad! And I trust to him armed with his primer against the soldier in full military array.”
Jeremy Bentham Quotes |
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“Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.”
Hector Louis Berlioz Quotes |
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“Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.”
Thomas Carruthers Quotes |
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“There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.”
John Ashbery Quotes |
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“Draw a crazy picture,Write a nutty poem,Sing a mumble-gumble song,Whistle through your comb.Do a loony-goony dance'Cross the kitchen floor,Put something silly in the worldThat ain't been there before.”
Shel Silverstein Quotes |
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“Poetry is life distilled.”
Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes |
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“The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.”
Socrates Quotes |
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