 | American poetry - 1854 - 456 pages
...— Till smoothed, and squared, and fitted to its place, Does but encumber whom it seems to enrich ! Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much, Wisdom is humble that he knows no more. GOOD TEMPER. — More. SINCE trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles... | |
 | Oliver Oldham - Readers (Secondary) - 1854 - 406 pages
...builds, Till smooth'd, and squared, and fitted into place, Does but encumber what it seems to enrich. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much, Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.—COWPKK. * See note, page 58. CONCLUSIVE REASONING. A little boy asked his mother how many gods... | |
 | Education - 1854 - 862 pages
...in endless repetitions, showing how cabined, cribbed and confined the human mind really is. Conceit is proud that he has learned so much. Wisdom is humble that he knows no more. ' f cprtnunt. THE ECLIPSE. This noon the old King of Day shone out splendid and fierce аь if in royal... | |
 | 1833 - 632 pages
...the highest and noblest use of that term. " Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have ofttimes no connexion. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with...attentive to their own. Knowledge is proud that he has learn'd so much, Wisdom is humble that he knows no more." It is surprising, how few persons are in... | |
 | Anna Cabot Lowell - American poetry - 1855 - 452 pages
...• Till smoothed, and squared, and fitted to its place, Does but encumber whom it seems to enrich ! Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much, Wisdom is humble that he knows no more. GOOD TEMPER. — More. SINCE trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles... | |
 | American poetry - 1855 - 458 pages
...— Till smoothed, and squared, and fitted to its place, Does but encumber whom it seems to enrich ! Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much, Wisdom is humble that he knows no more. GOOD TEMPER. — Mare. SINCE trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1855 - 472 pages
...Till smoothed, and squared, and fitted to its place — Does but encumber whom it seems to enrich ! Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much. Wisdom is humble that he knows no more. — COWPER. LESSON I. FORM OF THE EARTH. BY KDWABD HUGHES. " He stretcheth out the north over the empty... | |
 | 1855 - 264 pages
...builds, Till smooth'd and squared, and fitted to its place, Does but encumber when it seems t' enrich. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much, Wisdom is humble that he knows no more/ " " Farnham Castle, 25th July 1855. " In conformity with the pledge I gave «n Thursday last, I have... | |
 | Joseph William Jenks - English poetry - 1856 - 574 pages
...builds, Till smoothed, and squared, and fitted to its place, Does but encumber whom it seems to enrich. Is, nor nil The ilreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us, or dis ABUSES OP BOOK-READING. Books arc not seldom talismans and spells, By which the magic art of shrewder... | |
 | 1857 - 734 pages
...youth, than to be ignorant in age. — Solon. God listens to the heart, not to the voice. — Auguttimt. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much ; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more. — Cowper. Jesus for me is my righteousness before a holy God ; and Jesus in me, my strength before... | |
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... connection. 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,... 
