 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1806 - 234 pages
...Charms more than silence. Meditation here May think down hours to moments. Here the heart May give an useful lesson to the head, And learning wiser grow...so much ; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more. Books are not seldom talismans and spells, By which the magic art of shrewder wits Holds an unthinking... | |
 | William Cowper - 1818 - 448 pages
...builds, Till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, Does but encumber whom it seems to eurich. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much ; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more. Books are not seldom talismans and spells, By which the magic art of shrewder wits Hold an unthinking... | |
 | William Cowper - Poets, English - 1821 - 556 pages
...wiser grow without his books. Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of...so much ; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more. Books are not seldom talismans and spells, By which the magic art of shrewder wits Holds an unthinking... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1821 - 246 pages
...Wisdom builds, Till smoothed, and squared, and fitted to its place, Does but encumber whom it seems t ' enrich. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much : Wisdom is humble that he knows no more, Books are not seldom talismans and spells, By which the magic art of shrewder wits Holds an unthinking... | |
 | William Withering - Medicine - 1822 - 534 pages
...and illustrating that . . " Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft times no connexion: Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much ; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more." Hence, after meditating on the discoveries and sublime speculations of a great astronomer, and sweeping... | |
 | Thomas Hancock - Instinct - 1824 - 578 pages
...own. Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, The mere material with which Wisdom builds, 'Till smooth'd and squared and fitted to its place, Does but encumber...so much, Wisdom is humble that he knows no more." Task, Book 6. CHAPTER f. GENERAL VIEW OF DIFFERENT WRITERS OPINIONS ON THE SUBJECT: THE ARRANGEMENT... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - Chivalry - 1828 - 416 pages
...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 *." There is such a thing as being " sapienter indoctus," as Gregory the Great said of St. Benedict... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...Wisdom builds, Till smoothed, and squared, and fitted to its place, Does but encumber whom it seems t' enrich. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much ; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more. Books are not seldom talismans and spells, By which the magic art of shrewder wits Holds an unthinking... | |
 | William Cowper - 1832 - 602 pages
...Wisdom builds, Till smoothed, and squared, and fitted to its place, Does but encumber whom it seems t' n you wcro here. There arc in it, undoubtedly, Books are not seldom talismans and spells, By which the magic art of shrewder wits Holds an unthinking... | |
 | Village Pastor - Christian life - 1831 - 206 pages
...Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men j Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much, Wisdom is humble that he knows no more. 8* 90 ADVICE TO A It is surprising, how few persons are in the habit of attending to the operations... | |
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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, Till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, Does but encumber... 
