Roger Ascham Quotes

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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.

Roger Ascham
Mark all mathematical heads which be only and wholly bent on these sciences, how solitary they be themselves, how unfit to live with others, and how unapt to serve the world.

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I said…how, and why, young children, were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning.

Roger Ascham
Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.

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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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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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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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Aristotle him selfe sayeth, that medicines be no meate to lyue withall.

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Aristotle himself says, that medicines be no meat to live withal.

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Twenty to one offend more in writing too much than too little.

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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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Inglese Italianato, e un diavolo incarnato, that is to say, you remain men in shape and fashion, but become devils in life and condition.
Of Englishmen travelling in Italy

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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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It is good manners, not rank, wealth, or beauty, that constitute the real lady.

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To be rash is to be bold without shame and without skill.

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The least learned, for the most part, have been always most ready to write.

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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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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 judgement of wise men allow him.

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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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To laugh, to lie, to flatter, to face
Four ways in court to win men grace.

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