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Source: The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe

“Well observe The rule of Not too much, by temperance taught In what thou eat'st and drink'st.”

Wells Too Much Taught Drink Temperance

Book:The Complete Poems and Major Prose

Source: The Complete Poems and Major Prose

“Pity is best taught by fellowship in woe.”

Taught Pity Woe Fellowship Self Pity

Book:The Poetical and Dramatic Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With a Life of the Author

Source: The Poetical and Dramatic Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With a Life of the Author

“Too much rigidity on the part of teachers should be followed by a brisk spirit of insubordination on the part of the taught.”

Should Spirit Too Much Teacher Taught Rigidity Insubordination

Book:Points of View

Source: Points of View

“I was a terrible history student. They taught me history as if it were a visit to a wax museum or to the land of the dead. I was over twenty before I discovered that the past was neither quiet nor mute.”

Ifs Past Education Land Students Taught Terrible Quiet Twenties Museums Mute

Author:Eduardo Galeano

“My grandfather taught me that it is harder to be kind than it is to be clever.”

Kind Taught Harder Clever Be Kind Teamwork Grandfather My Grandfather

Author:Jeff Bezos

“When I taught, a lot of my students weren't big readers, so they would write something and I realized that they thought it belonged in a book. Like, they didn't know what the inside of a book looked like, you know what I mean?”

Knows Writing Mean Book Bigs Students Taught Like You Reader I Realized

Author:David Sedaris

“Mama had an appreciation of the language. She taught me a love of words, of how they should be used and how they can fill a creative soul with a passion and lead to a life's work.”

Should Soul Used Passion Language Creative Taught Appreciation Mama

Book:Don't Forget to Call Your Mama--: I Wish I Could Call Mine

Source: Don't Forget to Call Your Mama--: I Wish I Could Call Mine

“If we taught music the way we try to teach engineering, in an unbroken four year course, we could end up with all theory and no music. When we study music, we start to practice from the beginning, and we practice for the entire time.”

Ifs Way Trying Years Ends Courses Teach Practice Study Four Teaching Taught Theory Four Years Engineering Unbroken

Author:Charles Kettering

“O give me new figures! I can't go on dancing The same that were taught me ten seasons ago; The schoolmaster over the land is advancing, Then why is the master of dancing so slow? It is such a bore to be always caught tripping In dull uniformity year after year; Invent something new, and you'll set me a skipping: I want a new figure to dance with my Dear!”

Want Giving Years I Can Land Figures Taught Masters Goes On Ten Seasons Give Me Dancing Dear Caught Dull Something New Bores Advancing Uniformity Tripping

Author:Thomas Haynes Bayly

“My husband taught me housekeeping; when I divorce I keep the house.”

Life Inspiration Funny House Taught Humorous Witty Divorce Housekeeping Funny Divorce Hilarious Short Divorce Lawyers

Author:Zsa Zsa Gabor

“I've taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art.”

Firsts Art Teach Teaching Taught

Author:Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

“I deny that art can be taught, or, in other words, maintain that art is completely individual, and that the talent of each artist is but the result of his own inspiration and his own study of past tradition.”

Art Inspiration Past Artist Individual Results Education Study Talent Taught Art Is Tradition Deny

Author:Gustave Courbet

“An artist who is self-taught is taught by a very ignorant person indeed.”

Persons Self Artist Education Taught Ignorant Self Taught Ignorant Person

Author:John Constable

“Not only can color, which is under fixed laws, be taught like music, but it is easier to learn than drawing, whose elaborate principles cannot be taught.”

Law Principles Taught Color Easier Drawing Fixed Colour

Author:Eugene Delacroix

“May we incorporate into our own lives the divine principles which he Joseph Smith so beautifully taught by example, that we, ourselves, might live more completely the gospel of Jesus Christ. . . May our lives reflect the knowledge we have that God lives, that Jesus Christ is His son, that Joseph Smith was a prophet and that we are led today by another prophet of God - even President Gordon B. Hinckley.”

May Might Today Jesus President Christ Principles Our Lives Example Taught Divine Son Jesus Christ Prophet God Life Joseph Smith Gordon B Hinckley

Author:Thomas S. Monson

“I was born in North London in 1947. I didn't learn to read until I was almost 8-partly bad schooling, and partly I suspect slight dyslexic problems. My father, driven mad by this, taught me to read. At 9 I began writing.”

Writing Problem Father Born Taught Mad London Driven Suspects Parting Schooling Dyslexic

Author:Tanith Lee

“Jesus liberated us from religion. Jesus taught simple religious practices over major theorizing. The only thoughts Jesus told us to police were our own: our own negative thoughts, our own violent thoughts, our own hateful thoughts-not other people's thoughts.”

People Thinking Jesus Religious Simple Practice Taught Majors Negative Police Violent Hateful Liberated Negative Thoughts Religious Practices

Author:Richard Rohr

“Sincere thought, real free thought, ready, in the name of superhuman authority or of humble common sense, to question the basis of what is officially taught and generally accepted, is less and less likely to thrive. It is, we repeat, by far easier to enslave a literate people than an illiterate one, strange as this may seem at first sight. And the enslavement is more likely to be lasting.”

Source: The Lightning and the Sun

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