John Dryden Quotes about Learning

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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

John Dryden

Fear, Life Lesson, Learning

Mere poets are sottish as mere drunkards are, who live in a continual mist, without seeing or judging anything clearly. A man should be learned in several sciences, and should have a reasonable, philosophical and in some measure a mathematical head, to be a complete and excellent poet.

John Dryden

Philosophical, Learning, Math

John Dryden, George Saintsbury, Sir Walter Scott (1892). “The Works of John Dryden: Poetical works”