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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. "
A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the ... - Page 273
by Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 644 pages
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Poems, Volume 2

William Cowper - 1800 - 438 pages
...wiser grow without his books. Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connexion. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of...Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, The mere materials with which wisdom builds, Till smooth'd and squar'd and...
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Poems, Volume 2

William Cowper - 1802 - 350 pages
...wiser grow without his books. Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connexion. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of...Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, The mere materials with which wisdom builds, Till smooth'd and squar'd and...
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Poems, Volume 1

William Cowper - 1803 - 362 pages
...give an ufeful leflbn to the head, And learning wifer grow without his books. ~SL nowledge and wifdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection....dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men: U'ifdom in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mafs, The mere materials with...
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The Monthly Visitor, and Entertaining Pocket Companion, Volume 13

1801 - 432 pages
...moments. Here the heart May give an useful lesson to the head, And learning wiser grow without his books. Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times...Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge a rude unprofitable mass, The mere materials with which wisdom builds, Till smooth'd and squar'd, and...
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The Poetical Works of William Cowper: Of the Inner Temple, Esq, Volume 2

William Cowper - 1806 - 234 pages
...wiser grow without his books. Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connexion. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of...Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, The mere materials with which wisdom builds, Till smoothed and squared and...
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The Task: A Poem. In Six Books

William Cowper - 1810 - 212 pages
...grow without his books. • Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft times no connexion. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of...Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, The mere materials with which wisdom builds, Till smooth'd and squar'd and...
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The Task: A Poem in Six Books

William Cowper - 1811 - 228 pages
...wiser grow without his books. Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connexion. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of...Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, The mere materials with which wisdom builds, Till smooth'd and squar'd and...
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The Baltimore Medical and Philosophical Lycæum, Volume 1

Nathaniel Potter - 1811 - 442 pages
...complying with this theory: But "Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft. times no connexion. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of...other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own." In my history of the Influenza of 1807.* I have been led into a view of the use of emetics in that...
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Rural discourses

William Clayton - 1814 - 420 pages
...like salt which has * The distinction between knowledge and wisdom should be ever remembered: for, " Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, " Have oft-times...Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. " Knowledge a rude unprofitable mass, " The mere materials with which wisdom builds ; " Till smooth'd and sijuur'cl...
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The Youth's magazine, or Evangelical miscellany

1846 - 612 pages
...world to come. " But ever bear in mind that ' Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft time no connection : knowledge dwells In heads replete...other men ; Wisdom, in minds attentive to their own.' " Read the whole of Cowper's admirable distinction between the two. I will not tell you where to find...
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