“Our learning ought to be our lives' amendment, and the fruits of our…” — Thomas Nashe | V2Melody

“Our learning ought to be our lives' amendment, and the fruits of our private study ought to appear in our public behavior.”

On the true purpose of education as moral improvement · The Anatomie of Absurditie (1589)

About Thomas Nashe

Thomas Nashe

1567–c. 1601

Thomas Nashe, baptized on 26 November 1567 and probably born shortly before that date in Lowestoft, Suffolk, was one of the most brilliant, abrasive, inventive, and precarious figures of the English Renaissance. He died sometime after 1599 and is conventionally assigned a death date of about 1601, though the…

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More remarks by Thomas Nashe

“A traveller must have the back of an ass to bear all, a tongue like the tail of a dog to flatter all, the mouth of a hog to eat what is set before him, the ear of a merchant to hear all and say nothing.”

Satirical advice on the qualities needed for successful travel · The Unfortunate Traveller (1594)

“Poetry is the honey of all flowers, the quintessence of all sciences, the marrow of wit, and the very phrase of angels.”

Celebrating poetry as the highest form of expression and knowledge · Pierce Penniless (1592)

“A dream is nothing else but a bubbling scum or froth of the fancy, which the day hath left undigested; or an after-feast made of the fragments of idle imaginations.”

On dreams as the residue of daytime thoughts · The Terrors of the Night (1594)