Learn of the little nautilus to sail, / Spread the thin oar and catch the driving gale. Pope.
Learn taciturnity; let that be your motto. Burns.
Learn that nonsense is none the less nonsense because it is in rhyme; and that rhyme without a purpose or a thought that has not been better expressed before is a public nuisance, only to be tolerated because it is good for trade. C. Fitzhugh.
Learn the value of a man's words and expressions, and you know him. Each man has a measure of his own for everything; this he offers you inadvertently in his words. He who has a superlative for everything wants a measure for the great or small. Lavater.
Learn to be good readers, which is perhaps a 45 more difficult thing than you imagine. Learn to be discriminative in your reading; to read faithfully, and with your best attention, all kinds of things which you have a real interest in—a real, not an imaginary—and which you find to be really fit for what you are engaged in. Carlyle to students.
Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth so far as it makes us of benefit to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied. Plutarch.
Learn to creep before you leap. Pr.
Learn to hold thy tongue. Five words cost Zacharias forty weeks' silence. Fuller.
Learn to labour and to wait. Longfellow.
Learn to say before you sing. Pr. 5