Students

Students are people who are engaged in learning, particularly those who attend an educational institution. In some nations, the English term (or its cognate in another language) is reserved for those who attend university, while a schoolchild under the age of eighteen is called a pupil in English (or an equivalent in other languages). In its widest use, student is used for anyone who is learning.

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• Where should the scholar live? In solitude, or in society? in the green stillness of the country, where he can hear the heart of Nature beat, or in the dark, gray town where he can hear and feel the throbbing heart of man?
  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hyperion (1839), Book I, Chapter VIII.

• And then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel
  And shining morning face, creeping like snail
  Unwillingly to school.
  • William Shakespeare, As You Like It (c.1599-1600), Act II, scene 7, line 145.

• He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one;
  Exceeding wise, fair-spoken, and persuading;
  Lofty and sour to them that lov'd him not;
  But to those men that sought him sweet as summer.
  • William Shakespeare, Henry VIII (1613), Act IV, scene 2, line 51.

• And with unwearied fingers drawing out
  The lines of life, from living knowledge hid.
  • Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene (1589-96), Book IV, Canto II, Stanza 48.

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations

Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 756-57.

• Rocking on a lazy billow
  With roaming eyes,
  Cushioned on a dreamy pillow,
  Thou art now wise.
  Wake the power within thee slumbering,
  Trim the plot that's in thy keeping,
  Thou wilt bless the task when reaping
  Sweet labour's prize.
  • John Stuart Blackie, Address to the Edinburgh Students. Quoted by Lord Iddlesleigh, Desultory Reading.

• Strange to the world, he wore a bashful look,
  The fields his study, nature was his book.
  • Robert Bloomfield, Farmer's Boy, Spring, line 31.

• Experience is the best of schoolmasters, only the school-fees are heavy.
  • Thomas Carlyle, Miscellaneous Essays, I, 137 (Ed. 1888). Same idea in Benjamin Franklin, Preliminary Address to the Pennsylvania Almanac for 1758.

• The scholar who cherishes the love of comfort, is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
  • Confucius, Analects, Book XIV, Chapter III.

• The studious class are their own victims; they are thin and pale, their feet are cold, their heads are hot, the night is without sleep, the day a fear of interruption,—pallor, squalor, hunger, and egotism. If you come near them and see what conceits they entertain—they are abstractionists, and spend their days and nights in dreaming some dream; in expecting the homage of society to some precious scheme built on a truth, but destitute of proportion in its presentment, of justness in its application, and of all energy of will in the schemer to embody and vitalize it.
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson, Representative Men, Montaigne.

• The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
  • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858), VI.

• Ah, pensive scholar, what is fame?
  A fitful tongue of leaping flame;
  A giddy whirlwind's fickle gust,
  That lifts a pinch of mortal dust;
  A few swift years, and who can show
  Which dust was Bill, and which was Joe?
  • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Poems of the Class of '29, Bill and Joe, Stanza 7.