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Tuesday, November 1, 2022

Quotes by English Writers

 

  1. Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
  2. Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. -Benjamin Franklin
  3. Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. -Francis Bacon
  4. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. -Francis Bacon
  5. Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity. -William Wordsworth
  6.  Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice. -William Shakespeare
  7. Neither a borrower nor a lender be. -William Shakespeare
  8. All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts. -William Shakespeare
  9. Brevity is the soul of wit. -William Shakespeare
  10. Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. -William Shakespeare
  11. Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once. - William Shakespeare
  12. Living well is the best revenge. - George Herbert
  13. No man is an island. - John Donne
  14. One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. - Virginia Wolf
  15. “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” ― Socrates
  16. “Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.” ― Socrates
  17. “Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.” ― Socrates
  18.  “Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.” ― Socrates