| Old Humphrey - 1845 - 264 pages
...very deficient in wisdom. " Knowledge and wisdom, fax 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... | |
| Augusta M. Wicks - 1845 - 214 pages
...pious of our English poets, " 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,... | |
| 1845 - 412 pages
...of which constitutes wisdom. " Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have ofttimes no communion. 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,... | |
| William Goodman - 1845 - 440 pages
...help but lead to good, and although they may occasionally bring forth some ebullitions of vanity for " Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much ; Wisdom is humble, that he knows no more." Yet age and experience will correct this. In the dying words of La Place, " what we know is but little,... | |
| Kenelm Henry Digby - 1846 - 412 pages
...grew ashamed of being Christians : they deserve to be esteemed wiser, as well as more virtuous, for - Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of...learned so much ; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.1 There is such a thing as being "sapienter indoctus," as Gregory the Great said of St. Benedict... | |
| Kenelm Henry Digby - 1846 - 416 pages
...grew ashamed of being Christians : they deserve to be esteemed wiser, as well as more virtuous, for Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of...learned so much ; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.i There is such a thing as being " sapienter indoctus," as Gregory the Great said of St. Benedict... | |
| Charles Bricket Haddock - 1846 - 604 pages
...moments. Here the heart May give a useful lesson to the head, And learning wiser grow without its books. Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have ofttimes...Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge, a rude, unprofitable mass, The mere materials from which wisdom builds, Till smoothed, and squared,... | |
| Richard Hiley - 1846 - 144 pages
...tyrannic claim To quench it,) here shines on me the same." An illustration of Apostrophe. Ex. 14. " 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,... | |
| 1846 - 436 pages
...VIRTUE. KNOWLEDGE AND WISDOM. — Cowper. KNOWLEDGE and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft times no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with...Wisdom, in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge, — a rude, unprofitable mass, The mere materials with which wisdom builds, — Till smoothed, and... | |
| 1846 - 318 pages
...reiueui ui uu-; mu.tn, wts may assent to the poet's value of each :— 's estimate of the relative "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,... | |
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