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There Taught Us How To Live; And (oh, Too High The Price For Knowledge!
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There taught us how to live; and (oh, too high
The price for knowledge!) taught us how to die.
-- Thomas Tickell (1686-1740)
-- On the Death of Mr. Addison, Line 81
Related:
Just men, by whom impartial laws were given; And saints who taught and led the way to heaven.
-- Thomas Tickell (1686-1740) -- On the Death of Mr. Addison, Line 41...
Nor e'er was to the bowers of bliss conveyed A fairer spirit or more welcome shade.
-- Thomas Tickell (1686-1740) -- On the Death of Mr. Addison, Line 45...
Teach him how to live, And, oh still harder lesson!
how to die. -- Beilby Porteus (1731-1808) -- Death, Line 316...
I went to a Catholic school where the kids were so tough the nun taught us art and how to draw composite sketches.
He taught us drawing, stretching, and fainting in coils.
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing.
-- Maurice Maeterlinck...
Everyone can be taught to sculpt: Michelangelo would have had to be taught how not to.
So it is with the great programmers....