“Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.”
Volume iii, p. 335
Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
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Anglo-Irish statesman 1729–1797Related quotes
“Though the Camomill, the more it is trodden and pressed downe the more it spreadeth.”
Source: Euphues (Arber [1580]), P. 46. Compare: "The camomile, the more it is trodden on the faster it grows", William Shakespeare, 1 Henry IV, act ii, sc. 4.
“If you walk down a well-trodden path long enough, you eventually end up alone.”
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830–1916) Austrian writer
Wenn du einen vielbetretenen Weg lange gehst, so gehst du ihn endlich allein.
Source: Aphorisms (1880/1893), p. 28.
Theodore Tilton (1835–1907) American newspaper editor
Sir Marmaduke's Musings, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Aurangzeb (1618–1707) Sixth Mughal Emperor
Akhbarat. Jadunath Sarkar, History of Aurangzib, Volume III, Orient Longman, New Delhi, 1972 reprint, pp. 185–89., quoted from Shourie, Arun (2014). Eminent historians: Their technology, their line, their fraud. Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India : HarperCollins Publishers.
Quotes from late medieval histories, 1670s
István Küzmics (1723–1779) Hungarian translator
“Cast down your bucket where you are.”
Booker T. Washington (1856–1915) African-American educator, author, orator, and advisor
This address was a speech at the Cotton States and International Exposition, Atlanta (1895-09-18)
Source: 1900s, Up From Slavery (1901), Chapter XIV: The Atlanta Exposition Address
“And if you cast down an idol, there's nothing left.”
Agatha Christie (1890–1976) English mystery and detective writer
Henrietta Savernake
The Hollow (1946)
“Much to cast down, much to build, much to restore.”
T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) 20th century English author
Choruses from The Rock (1934)