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.
It is costly wisdom that is brought by experience. - Roger Ascham
It is costly wisdom that is brought by experience.
- Roger Ascham
By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering. - Roger Ascham
By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering.
The least learned, for the most part, have been always most ready to write. - Roger Ascham
The least learned, for the most part, have been always most ready to write.
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 manslaug… - Roger Ascham
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 manslaug…
Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty. - Roger Ascham
Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.
To be rash is to be bold without shame and without skill. - Roger Ascham
To be rash is to be bold without shame and without skill.
Young children were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning. - Roger Ascham
Young children were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning.
In mine opinion, love is fitter than fear, gentleness better than beating, to bring up a child rightly in learning. - Roger Ascham
In mine opinion, love is fitter than fear, gentleness better than beating, to bring up a child rightly in learning.
There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise. - Roger Ascham
There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.
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