Quote by Roger Ascham
It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience. - Roger Ascham

It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience. – Roger Ascham

Other quotes by Roger Ascham

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

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Learning
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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. – Roger Ascham

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Learning
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Other Quotes from
Wisdom
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The hours of folly are measured by the clock but of wisdom, no clock can measure. – William Blake

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Wisdom

Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom. – George William Curtis

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Wisdom

Dr. Johnson has said that the chief glory of a country arises from its authors. But then that is only as they are oracles of wisdom unless they teach virtue, they are more worthy of a halter than of the laurel. – Jane Porter

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Wisdom

If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom. – Nigel Farage

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Wisdom

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I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair. – Joseph Addison

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Sympathy

Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites…
Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. – Edmund Burke

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Liberty

If you had half as much brains as you have beard, you would have looked before you leaped. – Aesop [Context note: The beard here mentioned is on a goat. The fox is speaking

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Mustaches

Clouds and darkness surround us, yet Heaven is just, and the day of triumph will surely come, when justice and truth will be vindicated. – Mary Todd Lincoln

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Truth