learning by heart

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The Master used to attach much importance to the learning by heart of Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh and the Báb.

From A Compilation on Bahá’í Education by Universal House of Justice

I made good progress with my lessons, and remembered easily the sense of what I read, but I had the greatest difficulty in learning by heart; only at catechism were my efforts crowned with success.

From The Story of a Soul (L'Histoire d'une Âme): The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux With Additional Writings and Sayings of St. Thérèse by Taylor, Thomas N. (Thomas Nimmo)

Those who exert ingenuity as well as memory in learning by heart, may not, perhaps, associate sounds with so much expedition, but they will have the power of recollection in a greater degree.

From Practical Education, Volume II by Edgeworth, Maria

Then slowly, as one learning by heart who looks not about him, he took his way towards Sallertaine and on from thence to Chalons.

From Autumn Glory The Toilers of the Field by Bazin, Ren?

Furthermore, the constant learning by heart infallibly leads to slavish repetition and mental servility.

From The Myths of the New World A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America by Brinton, Daniel Garrison