Post #2900

To a poet nothing can be useless.
—Samuel Johnson

Post #2899

Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
—William Shakespeare

Post #2898

Genius may conceive, but patient labor must consummate.
—Horace Mann

Post #2897

A Persian philosopher, being asked by what method he had acquired much knowledge, answered, “By not being prevented by shame from asking questions where I was ignorant."

Post #2896

What is all knowledge, too, but recorded experience, and a product of history; of which, therefore, reasoning and belief, no less than action and passion, are essential materials?
—Thomas Carlyle

Post #2895

Knowledge always desires increase: it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterwards propagate itself.
—Samuel Johnson

Post #2894

Those only who know little, can be said to know anything. The greater the knowledge the greater the doubt.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Post #2893

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.
—Margaret Fuller

Post #2892

Knowledge is like money,—the more a man gets, the more he craves.
—H.W. Shaw

Post #2891

Every monarch is subject to a mightier one.
—Seneca

Post #2890

I have sped by land and sea, and mingled with much people, but never yet could find a spot unsunned by human kindness.
—Martin Farquhar Tupper

Post #2889

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground: but a kind word is never thrown away.
—Sir Arthur Helps

Post #2888

He who sings frightens away his ills.
—Miguel de Cervantes

Post #2887

The burden becomes light which is cheerfully borne.
—Ovid

Post #2886

A man looketh on his little one as a being of better hope; in himself ambition is dead, but it bath a resurrection in his son.
—Martin Farquhar Tupper