Acquiring wisdom

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I've known rivers:
I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins.
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

Langston Hughes

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Rivers Life experience Acquiring wisdom

Author

Langston Hughes

Source

The Negro Speaks of Rivers

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1921 1920s 20th century

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Original Citation

Hughes, Langston. "The Negro Speaks of Rivers." The Crisis, June 1921, I. 1.

Current Citation

Hughes, Langston. "The Negro Speaks of Rivers." The Weary Blues. Alfred A. Knopf, 2015, I. 1.

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Marcel Proust

In Search of Lost Time

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Acquiring wisdom Wisdom

Author

Marcel Proust

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In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower In Search of Lost Time

Medium

Novel

Genre

Modernist literature

Language

French

Time

1919 1910s 20th century

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Original Citation

Proust, Marcel. À l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs [In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower]. Paris: Gallimard, 1919.

Current Citation

Proust, Marcel. In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower, translated and edited by James Grieve. Penguin Classics, 2005.

Wisdom is not the purchase of a day.

Thomas Paine

The Crisis

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Acquiring wisdom Wisdom

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Thomas Paine

Source

The Crisis

Medium

Pamphlet

Genre

Political literature

Language

English

Time

1776 1770s 18th century

Era

American Revolutionary Period

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Original Citation

Paine, Thomas. The American Crisis: Number 1. Philadelphia: Styner and Cist, 1776.

Current Citation

Paine, Thomas. "The American Crisis, Number I, December 19, 1776." Common Sense, The Crisis, & Other Writings from the American Revolution. Library of America, 2015.

We live and learn, but not the wiser grow.

John Pomfret

Reason

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Life lessons School of hard knocks Acquiring wisdom

Author

John Pomfret

Source

Reason

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1700 1700s 18th century

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Pomfret, John. Reason. London: J. Nutt, c. 1700.

Be wise with speed;
A fool at forty is a fool indeed.

Edward Young

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Acquiring wisdom

Author

Edward Young

Source

Love of Fame, the Universal Passion

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1726 1720s 18th century

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Citation

Young, Edward. Love of Fame, the Universal Passion. c. 1726, satire 2, I. 282.

The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd,
Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made;
Stronger by weakness, wiser, men become
As they draw near to their eternal home.
Leaving the old; both worlds at once they view,
That stand upon the threshold of the new.

Edmund Waller

On the Divine Poems

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Personal growth Effects of time Acquiring wisdom

Author

Edmund Waller

Source

On the Divine Poems

Language

English

Time

1686 1680s 17th century

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Citation

Waller, Edmund. "On the Foregoing Divine Poems." Poetical Works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham. Edinburgh: James Nichol, 1857.