The sandal-wood, while it is felling, imparts to the edge of the axe its aromatic flavour; so the good man goes not upon enmity, but rewards with kindness the very being who injures him. Hindoo Epigram. The last best fruit which comes to late perfection, even in the kindliest soul, is tenderness toward the hard, forbearance toward the unforbearing, warmth of heart toward the cold, philanthrophy toward the misanthropic. Jean Paul F. Richter. "The soft showers of summer to the parched earth, are not more grateful than kindness to a mind depressed by neglect or indifference." KNOWLEDGE & IGNORANCE. Knowledge, which is the highest degree of the speculative faculties, consists in the perception of the truth of affirmative or negative propositions. Locke. Ignorance is the curse of God, heaven. The end of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents, by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love Him, to imitate Him, to be like Him, as we may the nearest, by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection. Milton. Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which, one would think, might dispose us to modesty for the more a man knows, the more he discovers his ignorance. : Jeremy Collier. A man may be too covetous of understanding, and a miser in his head, as well as in his pocket. Jeremy Collier. As diamonds rough no lustre can impart Shelley. It is a wise father that knows his own child. Knowledge in general expands the mind, exalts the faculties, refines the taste of pleasure, and opens numerous sources of intellectual enjoy ment. Robert Hall. Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world, in skilful hands; in unskilful, the most mischievous. Pope. To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance in the world. Jeremy Taylor. Though a man may become learned by another's learning, he can never be wise but by his own wisdom. Montaigne. Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty; and learning teacheth safely when experience maketh more miserable than wise. Roger Ascham. Knowledge will not be acquired without pains and application. It is troublesome and deep digging for pure waters; but when once you come to the spring, they will rise up and meet you. Owen Feltham. Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost. Dr. Fuller. Real knowledge never promoted turbulence or unbelief; but its progress is the forerunner of liberality and enlightened toleration. Brougham. Although our learning raiseth up against us many enemies among the low, and more among the powerful, yet doth it invest us with grand and glorious privileges; and grant to us a largeness of beatitude. Walter Savage Landor. "Having the vast volume of Nature always unfolded before him, no one can want mental recreation." Sublime knowledge cannot dwell in an unquiet spirit. Whichcote. "Frowardness oftener proceeds from ignorance than from impudence." KNAVERY. A knavish speech sleeps in a foolish ear. Shakespeare. Knavery's plain face is never seen till us'd. Shakespeare. He who attempts to make others believe in means which he himself despises, is a puffer; he who makes use of more means than he knows to be necessary, is a quack; and he who ascribes to those means a greater efficacy than his own experience warrants, is an impostor. Lavater. IFE. My notions about life are much the same as they are about travelling-there is a good deal of amusement on the road: but, after all, one wants to be at rest. Southey. Human life is like a game at dice: where we ought not to throw for what is most commodious to us, but to be content with our casts, let them be never so unfortunate. All the world's a stage, Plato. And all the men and women merely players: I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; Shakespeare. |