 | Patrick J. Keane - Literary Collections - 2005 - 575 pages
...experience taught, she learn That not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure and subtle, but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom, what is more, is fume, Or emptiness, or fond impertinence. Empty fume, inhaled, dulls the brain,... | |
 | Reference - 2004 - 516 pages
...wise. — Benjamin Franklin Be wise; Soar not too high to fall; but stoop to rise. — Philip Massinger To know That which before us lies in daily life Is the prime wisdom. — -John Milton It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well. —... | |
 | Denny Gunderson - Religion - 2006 - 216 pages
...Thankfully, God never uses the implements of depraved human beings to accomplish anything in his kingdom. To know that which before us lies in daily life, is the prime wisdom. — JOHN MILTON The Key Ingredients of Servant Leadership Many ingredients must go into the... | |
 | Stewart Justman - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 175 pages
...the ordinary follows upon "the affirmation of ordinary life" that began a century and more before.32 "To know / That which before us lies in daily life / Is the prime wisdom," states Milton.33 But instead of tracing our suspicion of the heroic back into the past by... | |
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That not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure and subtle,; but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom... 
