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It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.
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Experience
Wisdom
Bought
Costly
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It is costly wisdom that is brought by experience.
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A man reacheth not to excellence with one language.
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Men
Excellence
Language Words
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To be rash is to be bold without shame and without skill.
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Rashness
Shame
Skills
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By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering.
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Experience
Long
Wandering Around
Way
Find
Short
Wandering
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Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.
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Education
Learning
Science
Twenties
Years
Experience Learning More
Twenty
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Twenty to one offend more in writing too much than too little.
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Littles
Twenties
Writing
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To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do is style.
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Wise
Men
Common
Speak
Thinking
Common People
Wise Men
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Aristotle him selfe sayeth, that medicines be no meate to lyue withall.
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The least learned, for the most part, have been always most ready to write.
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Has Beens
Ready
Writing
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To laugh, to lie, to flatter, to face: Four ways in court to win man's grace.
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Men
Lying
Winning
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It is good manners, not rank, wealth, or beauty, that constitute the real lay.
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Good Man
Real
Wealth
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Young children were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning.
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Learning
Science
Children
Driven
Young Children
Love Good Learning
Attain
Beating
Sooner
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There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.
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Praise
Teaching
Wit
Sharpen
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As a hawk flieth not high with one wing, even so a man reacheth not to excellence with one tongue.
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Men
Language Words
Wings
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In mine opinion, love is fitter than fear, gentleness better than beating, to bring up a child rightly in learning.
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Learning
Children
Gentleness
Love Is
Opinion
Beating
Fitter
Rightly
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For [the] quick in wit and light in manners be either seldom troubled or very soon weary, in carrying a very heavy purse.
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Light
Manners
Purses
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He that will write well in any tongue must follow this counsel of Aristotle: to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do.
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Wise
Men
Writing
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A man, groundly learned already, may take much profit himself in using by epitome to draw other men’s works, for his own memory sake, into short room.
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Men
May
Memories
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In our fathers' time nothing was read but books of feigned chivalry, wherein a man by reading should be led to none other end, but only to manslaughter and bawdry.
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Book
Chivalry
Father
Reading
Fathers
Led
None
Wherein
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It is a pity that, commonly, more care is had--yea, and that among very wise men--to find out rather a cunning man for their horse than a cunning man for their children.
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Wise
Children
Horse
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Mark all mathematical heads which be wholly and only bent on these sciences, how solitary they be themselves, how unfit to live with others, how unapt to serve the world.
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Bent
Mark
Mathematical
Solitary
Heads
Sciences
Serve
Unfit
Wholly
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Let the master praise him, and say, 'Here ye do well.' For, I assure you, there is no such whetstone to sharpen a good wit, and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.
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Praise
Wit
Assure
Master
Sharpen
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Marke all Mathematicall heades, which be onely and wholy bent to those sciences, how solitarie they be themselues, how vnfit to liue with others, & how vnapte to serue in the world.
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Bent
Statistics
World
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Mathematical Mark all mathematical heads, which be only and wholly bent to those sciences, how solitary they be themselves, how unfit to live with others, and how unapt to serve in the world.
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Learning
Science
Math
Solitude
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He that will write well in any tongue, must follow this counsel of Aristotle, to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do: and so should every man understand him, and the judgment of wise men allow him.
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Wise
Every Man
Judgment
Tongue
Allow
Men Wise Man
Common People
Counsel
Wise Men
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Italianate Englishmen are incarnate devils ... for they first lustfully condemn God, then scornfully mock his word, and also spitefully hate and hurt all the well wishers thereof.... They count as fables the holy mysteries of religion.
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Hate
Hurt
Scary
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I remember when I was young, in the north, they went to the grammar school little children: they came from thence great lubbers: always learning, and little profiting: learning without book everything, understanding within the book little or nothing.
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Education
Book
Children
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He hazardeth much who depends for his learning on experience. An unhappy master, he that is only made wise by many shipwrecks; a miserable merchant, that is neither rich nor wise till he has been bankrupt. By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering.
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Experience
Wise
Long
Unhappy
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Charles V used to say that "the more languages a man knew, he was so many more times a man." Each new form of human speech introduces one into a new world of thought and life. So in some degree is it in traversing other continents and mingling with other races. As a hawk flieth not high with one wing, even so a man reacheth not to excellence with one tongue.
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Men
Race
Wings
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