Unazoomer

“Stāte super viās et interrogāte dē sēmitīs antīquīs que sit via bona et ambulāte in eā et inveniētis et refrīgerium animābus vestrīs etc.”
― Jeremias 6:16

“The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.”
― Geoffrey Chaucer, The Parliament of Birds

“For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.”
― John Milton, Areopagitica

“And new Philosophy calls all in doubt,
The Element of fire is quite put out;
The Sun is lost, and th'earth, and no mans wit
Can well direct him where to looke for it ...
'Tis all in peeces, all coherence gone;
All just supply, and all Relation.”
― John Donne, An Anatomy of the World: Wherein, by Occasion of the Untimely Death of Mistris Elizabeth Drury ...