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• I can readily conceive of a man without hands or feet; and I could conceive of him without a head, if experience had not taught me that by this he thinks, Thought then, is the essence of man, and without this we cannot conceive of him.

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Thinking, Hands

  Blaise Pascal (1825). “Thoughts on Religion, and Other Subjects”, p.5

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• Every child was taught from his cradle that money was Mammon, the chief agent of the flesh and the devil. As he grew up it was his duty as a Christian and a gentleman to appear to despise filthy lucre, whatever his secret opinion of it might be.

  Rebecca Harding Davis

  Christian, Money, Children

  Rebecca Harding Davis (1904). “Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography”, p.23, Vanderbilt University Press

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• ... it's impossible to register any emotion without using some muscle which, in time, will produce a wrinkle. ... By the time she is thirty, a starlet has been carefully taught to smile like a dead halibut. The eyes widen, the mouth drops open, but the eye muscles are never involved.

  Jean Kerr

  Eye, Wrinkles, Mouths

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• Men want to be reminded, who do not want to be taught; because those original ideas of rectitude to which the mind is compelled to assent when they are proposed, are not always as present to us as they ought to be.

  Edmund Burke

  Teaching, Men, Ideas

  Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.2071, Delphi Classics

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• Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.

  Homer

  Music, Song, Men

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• With wisdom fraught; not such as books, but such as practice taught.

  Edmund Waller

  Wisdom, Book, Practice

  Edmund Waller (1854). “Poetical Works of Edmund Waller. Edited by Robert Bell”, p.168

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• Priestly was the first (unless it was Becarria) who taught my lips to pronounce this sacred truth--that the greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Happiness, Numbers, Foundation

  "The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham". p. 142,

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• All men who have sense and feeling are being continually helped; they are taught by every person they meet, and enriched by everything that falls in their way. The greatest, is he who has been oftenest aided. Originality is the observing eye.

  John Ruskin

  Fall, Eye, Men

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• Experience has taught me that the only cruelties people condemn are those with which they do not happen to be familiar.

  Ellen Glasgow

  People, Cruelty, Familiar

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1958). “Letters of Ellen Glasgow”

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• Life has taught me that the greatest tragedy is not to die too soon but to live too long.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Long, Tragedy, Dies

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1958). “Letters of Ellen Glasgow”

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• What makes you imagine ... that anything of importance can be taught in a school?

  Iris Murdoch

  School, Imagine, Importance

  Iris Murdoch (1956). “The flight from the enchanter”, Viking Pr

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• The very essence of gravity was design, and, consequently, deceit; it was a taught trick to gain credit of the world for more sense end knowledge than a man was worth; and that with all its pretensions it was no better, but often worse, than what a French wit had long ago defined it--a mysterious carriage of the body to cover the defects of the mind.

  Laurence Sterne

  Men, Essence, Long Ago

  Laurence Sterne (1834). “The Works of Laurence Sterne, in One Volume”, p.17

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• In matters of equity between man and man, our Saviour has taught us to put my neighbor in place of myself, and myself in place of my neighbor.

  Isaac Watts

  Men, Taught Us, Justice

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• The child taught to believe any occurrence a good or evil omen, or any day of the week lucky, hath a wide inroad made upon the soundness of his understanding.

  Isaac Watts

  Children, Believe, Evil

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• Nothing raises the price of a blessing like its removal; whereas it was its continuance which should have taught us its value. There are three requisitions to the proper enjoyment of earthly blessings,--a thankful reflection on the goodness of the Giver, a deep sense of our unworthiness, a recollection of the uncertainty of long possessing them. The first would make us grateful; the second, humble; and the third, moderate.

  Hannah More

  Grateful, Humble, Blessing

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• Chickens are cheerless birds, I advise you to keep geese which can be taught to follow like dogs, one needs all the companionship one can get in these days.

  Nancy Mitford

  Dog, Bird, Needs

  Nancy Mitford, Charlotte Mosley (1993). “Love from Nancy: the letters of Nancy Mitford”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• It does not try to reach down to the level of inferior classes; it does not try to win them for this or that sect of its own, with ready-made judgments and watchwords of its own. It seeks to away with classes, to make the best that has been taught and known in the world current everywhere, to make all men live in an atmosphere of sweetness and light, where they may use ideas, as it uses them itself, freely--nourished, and not bound by them.

  Matthew Arnold

  Winning, Men, Light

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• Religion must be loved as a kind of country and nursing-mother. It was religion that nourished our virtues, that showed us heaven, that taught us to walk in the path of duty.

  Joseph Joubert

  Mother, Country, Nursing

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• The language of the face is not taught by the schools; it is intuitive, and to the observant is always legible.

  Julia Ward Howe

  School, Faces, Language

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• One of the first things Catholic school taught me is that babies were born sinners. You sucked before you took your first breath.

  Lizz Winstead

  Baby, School, Catholic

  Lizz Winstead (2012). “Lizz Free or Die: Essays”, p.25, Penguin

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• My Father taught me to weigh my words carefully, and speak up only when I had something insightful to add to the proceedings, or something really funny to say. He also taught me that if I couldn’t be that kind of guy in real life, that I could earn a healthy living pretending to be that guy in the movies – particularly when paired up with a long haired stoner.

  Kevin Smith

  Father, Real, Long

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• Forget what you've been taught so you can remember what you know.

  Alan Cohen

  Remember, Forget, Knows

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• Blest be the gracious Power, who taught mankind
  To stamp a lasting image of the mind!
  Beasts may convey, and tuneful birds may sing,
  Their mutual feelings, in the opening spring;
  But Man alone has skill and power to send
  The heart's warm dictates to the distant friend;
  'Tis his alone to please, instruct, advise
  Ages remote, and nations yet to rise.

  George Crabbe

  Spring, Heart, Men

  George Crabbe (1858). “The Poetical Works of George Crabbe”, p.60

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• In the first seat, in robe of various dyes,
  A noble wildness flashing from his eyes,
  Sat Shakespeare: in one hand a wand he bore,
  For mighty wonders fam'd in days of yore:
  The other held a globe, which to his will
  Obedient turn'd, and own'd the master's skill:
  Things of the noblest kind his genius drew,
  And look'd through nature at a single view:
  A loose he gave to his unbounded soul,
  And taught new lands to rise, new seas to roll;
  Call'd into being scenes unknown before,
  And passing nature's bounds, was something more.

  Charles Churchill

  Eye, Views, Hands

  Charles Churchill (1764). “Poems”, p.12

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• most people did not care to be taught what they did not already know; it made them feel ignorant.

  Mary McCarthy

  Education, Learning, People

  Mary McCarthy (2017). “Mary McCarthy: Novels 1963-1979”, p.397, Library of America

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