famous British writers/poets by Raffaella Antonelli

Oscar Wilde's Aphorisms:

raffanto64 — 2015-09-17 15:00:15 UTC

I have nothing to declare but my Genius.
It's only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

raffanto64 — 2016-02-01 16:18:54 UTC

Robert Louis Stevenson

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.

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Mark Twain

There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves

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Jane Austen

If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.

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Rudyard Kipling

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

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Jack London

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.

raffanto64 — 2016-02-01 16:26:10 UTC

Galileo Galilei

The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say: "The children are now working as if I didn't exist".

raffanto64 — 2016-02-01 16:27:44 UTC

Maria Montessori

Everybody is a Genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

raffanto64 — 2016-02-01 16:29:24 UTC

Albert Einstein

One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others

raffanto64 — 2016-06-21 10:20:01 UTC

Lewis Carroll

Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.

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Victor Hugo

You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

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Maya Angelou

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

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Benjamin Franklin

Study without desire spoils the memory and it retains nothing that it takes in.

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Leonardo Da Vinci

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones.

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Charlotte Bronte

I can't give you a brain, but I can give you a diploma.

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L.Frank Baum

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

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Nelson Mandela

To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching.

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George Bernard Show

If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.

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Emily Bronte

If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear

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Mary Shelley

I have not told the half of what I saw

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Marco Polo

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

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Mohandas Gandhi

Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.

raffanto64 — 2016-06-21 10:43:52 UTC

F. Scott Fitzegerald

The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.

raffanto64 — 2016-06-21 10:51:06 UTC

William Thackeray

Spoonfeeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon

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E.M. Forster