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" Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men, Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. "
The Englishman's library [ed. by E. H. L.]. - Page 331
by Englishman - 1824
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The Task

William Cowper - 1825 - 248 pages
...moments. Here the heart May give a useful lesson to the head, And Learning wiser grow without his books. Knowledge and Wisdom, far from being one, Have ofttimes...Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other meri-j Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, The mere materials...
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Poems, Volume 2

William Cowper - 1826 - 242 pages
...Here the heart 85 May give a useful lesson to the head, And Learning wiser grow without his books. Knowledge and Wisdom, far from being one, Have ofttimes...dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men ; 90 Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, The mere materials...
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Poems, Volume 2

William Cowper - 1826 - 242 pages
...Here the heart 85 May give a useful lesson to the head, And Learning wiser grow without his books. Knowledge and Wisdom, far from being one, Have ofttimes...dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men ; 90 Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, The mere materials...
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Much Instruction from Little Reading: Or, Extracts from Some of the Most ...

1827 - 290 pages
...And learning wiser grow without his books. Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft times no connexion. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with...smooth'd, and squar'd, 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...
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Laconics: Or Instructive Miscellanies, Selected from the Best Authors ...

General reader - 1827 - 246 pages
...And Learning wiser grow without his books. , Knowledge and Wisdom, far from being one, Have oftimes no connexion. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with...a rude unprofitable mass, The mere materials with whichr Wisdom builds, Till smooth'd, and squar'd, and fitted to its place, Does but encumber whom it...
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The Honey Bee: Its Natural History, Physiology, and Management

Edward Bevan - 1827 - 454 pages
...confined himself to man only. " Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft times no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of...other men, Wisdom in minds attentive to their own." It will, I think, be evident to my readers, from the general tenour of this chapter, that though I...
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The Poems of William Cowper

William Cowper - 1828 - 468 pages
...Here the heart May give a useful lesson to the head,. , . And Learning wiser grow without his books. Knowledge and Wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times...smooth'd, and squar'd, 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...
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The Broad Stone of Honour: The True Sense and Practice of Chivalry : Second ...

Kenelm Henry Digby - 1828 - 416 pages
...ashamed of being Christians : they deserve to be esteemed wiser, as well as more virtuous, for • " Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of...Wisdom, in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much, Wisdom is humble that he knows no more *." There is such a thing...
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Letters to a Friend: On the Evidences, Doctrines, and Duties, of ..., Volume 2

Olinthus Gregory - 1829 - 342 pages
...possible to know much without being wise, and especially without being " wise unto salvation." ' — Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, ' Have oft-times...smooth'd, and squar'd, 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...
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Letters to a Friend: On the Evidences, Doctrines, and Duties, of ..., Volume 2

Olinthus Gregory - 1829 - 340 pages
...possible to know much without being wise, and especially without being " wise unto salvation." " — Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, " Have oft-times...The mere materials with which wisdom builds, " Till smooth' d, and squar'd, and fitted to its place, " Does but encumber whom it seems t'enrich. " Knowledge...
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