 | Tryon Edwards - 1853 - 442 pagina’s
...Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men ; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much ; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more. Coivper. L. LABOR. From labor health, from health contentment springs ; Contentment opes the source... | |
 | 1854 - 456 pagina’s
...thoughts of other men ; Wisdom, in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge, — a rude, unprofitable mass, The mere materials with which Wisdom builds,...learned so much, Wisdom is humble that he knows no more. GOOD TEMPER. — More. SINCE trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles... | |
 | William Cowper - 1854 - 458 pagina’s
...own. Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, The mere materials with which Wisdom builds, Till smooth'd and squared, and fitted to its place, Does but encumber...it seems to enrich. Knowledge is proud that he has learn'd so much ; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more. Books are not seldom talismans and spells,... | |
 | Oliver Oldham - 1854 - 406 pagina’s
...with which wisdom builds, Till smooth'd, and squared, and fitted into place, Does but encumber what it seems to enrich. Knowledge is proud that he has...learned so much, Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.—COWPKK. * See note, page 58. CONCLUSIVE REASONING. A little boy asked his mother how many gods... | |
 | Francis Wayland - 1854 - 436 pagina’s
...men ; Wisdom, in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, The mere material with which Wisdom builds, Till smoothed, and squared, and fitted to its place, Does but encumber what it seemed to enrich. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much. Wisdom is humble that he... | |
 | Francis Wayland - 1854 - 444 pagina’s
...men ; Wisdom, in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, The mere material with which Wisdom builds, Till smoothed, and squared, and fitted to its place, Does but encumber what it seemed to enrich. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much. Wisdom is humble that he... | |
 | 1854 - 862 pagina’s
...in endless repetitions, showing how cabined, cribbed and confined the human mind really is. Conceit is proud that he has learned so much. Wisdom is humble that he knows no more. ' f cprtnunt. THE ECLIPSE. This noon the old King of Day shone out splendid and fierce аь if in royal... | |
 | William Cowper, Robert Southey - 1854 - 482 pagina’s
...Oppresses else with surfeit, and soon turns Wisdom to folly, as nourishment to wind. Till smooth'd and squared and fitted to its place, Does but encumber whom it seems to enrich. 95 Knowledge is proud that he has learn' d so much ; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more. Books... | |
 | Cyclopaedia, Henry Gardiner Adams - 1854 - 762 pagina’s
...own. Knowledge, a rude unprofitable masa, The mere materials with which wisdom builds. Till smooth'd and squared, and fitted to its place, Does but encumber whom it seems t' enrich. Knowledge is proud that he has learn'd so much, Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.... | |
 | 1854 - 632 pagina’s
...from being one, Have ofttimes no connexion. Knowledge, — a rude unprofitable mass, The mere material with which wisdom builds, Till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, Docs but encumber what is seemed to enrich. Knowledge is proud that she has learned so much, Wisdom... | |
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have ofttimes no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men, Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, The mere materials with which wisdom builds,... 
