 | Charles Walton Sanders - Readers - 1862 - 610 pages
...builds, 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. V. THE TRUE FREEMAN. He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves beside. There's... | |
 | James Lee (M.A.) - 1867 - 508 pages
...builds, 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. Anaxagoras used to say that he preierred a grain of wisdom to heaps of gold.— L. something... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - Quotations - 1867 - 752 pages
...replete with thoughts of other men, "Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. Cowper, Task, vi. 88. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much ; "Wisdom is humble that he knows no more. Cawper, Tatk, vI. 96. Knowledge is not happiness, and science But an exchange of ignorance for that... | |
 | 1867 - 680 pages
...builds, Till smooth'd and squar'd 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 tkat he knows no more. Tank, Book VI. There arc several beautiful Elegies on the death of his friend,... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - American poetry - 1868 - 710 pages
...— Till smoothed, and squared, and fitted to its 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. Cowper. SJiSiAND. LI. GLENARA. O HEARD ye yon pibroch sound sad in the gale, "Where a band comcth slowly... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1868 - 340 pages
...builds, Till smoothed, 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. — COWPEB. A climbing height it is, without a head, Deep without bottom, way without an end ; A circle... | |
 | Sunday school teachers - 1868 - 552 pages
...squared, and fitted to its place, Does but encumber whom it seems to enrich. Knowledge is proud tbat he has learned so much ; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more." — Cowper. ME. EDITOR — SIB, — Having seen in your last number a letter from one who suggests... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Readers - 1863 - 396 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. L — DAVID'S LAMENT FOR ABSALOM. N. PAKKKR WILLIS. [Nathaniel Parker Willln was born in Portland,... | |
 | Treasury - 1869 - 474 pages
...wiser grow without his books. ibid. * 'Twas Cowper who gave this now common name to the Mignonette, Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much ; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more. Book vi. Winter Walh at Noon. Some to the fascination of a name Surrender judgment hoodwinked. ibid.... | |
 | 1870 - 292 pages
...of science, are invited to spend a little of their ample leisure in pondering a couplet of Cowper : "Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more." But in plain terms, the conceit of wisdom is in inverse ratio to one's attainments. The less he knows,... | |
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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,... 
