Language
Alexander Pope
The learn’d is happy nature to explore,
Vice is a monster of so frightful mien,
Created half to rise, and half to fall;
And, spite of Pride, in erring Reason’s spite,
Men must be taught as if you taught them not,
Eye Nature’s walks, shoot Folly as it flies,
Some praise at morning what they blame at night;
A little learning is a dangerous thing;
Nature, and Nature’s laws lay hid in night.
Search then the Ruling Passion: There, alone,
’Tis education forms the common mind,
’Tis use alone that sanctifies expense.
The ruling passion, be it what it will,
Die, and endow a college, or a cat.
Unlearn’d, he knew no schoolman’s subtle art,
You think this cruel? take it for a rule,
I am his Highness’ dog at Kew;
On all the line a sudden vengeance waits,
How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense,
Poetic Justice, with her lifted scale.
Edgar Allan Poe
The glory that was Greece
Plutarco
He who cheats with an oath acknowledges that he is afraid of his enemy, but that he thinks little of God.
For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create in it an impulse to think independently and an ardent desire for the truth.
