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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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In mine opinion, love is fitter than fear, gentleness better than beating, to bring up a child rightly in learning.



It is costly wisdom that is brought by experience.

It is costly wisdom that is brought by experience.



There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.

There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.



By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering.

By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering.



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.

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.



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

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



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.

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.



A man reacheth not to excellence with one language.

A man reacheth not to excellence with one language.



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.

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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