Many Thoughts of Many Minds eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 316 pages of information about Many Thoughts of Many Minds.

Many Thoughts of Many Minds eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 316 pages of information about Many Thoughts of Many Minds.
A little learning is a dangerous thing;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: 
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
And drinking largely sobers us again. 

          
                          —­Pope.

The three foundations of learning:  Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much.—­CATHERALL.

The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him, and to imitate Him, by possessing our souls of true virtue.—­Milton.

Learning passes for wisdom among those who want both.—­Sir W. Temple.

Learning makes a man fit company for himself.—­Young.

He who has no inclination to learn more, will be very apt to think that he knows enough.—­Powell.

It is without all controversy that learning doth make the minds of men gentle, amiable, and pliant to government; whereas ignorance makes them churlish, thwarting, and mutinous; and the evidence of time doth clear this assertion, considering that the most barbarous, rude, and unlearned times have been most subject to tumults, seditions, and changes.—­Lord Bacon.

He that wants good sense is unhappy in having learning, for he has thereby only more ways of exposing himself; and he that has sense, knows that learning is not knowledge, but rather the art of using it.—­Steele.

To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.—­Bishop Taylor.

Learning is better worth than house or land.—­Crabbe.

Liberality.—­If you are poor, distinguish yourself by your virtues; if rich, by your good deeds.—­Joubert.

He that defers his charity until he is dead is, if a man weighs it rightly, rather liberal of another man’s goods than his own.—­Bacon.

Liberality consists rather in giving seasonably than much.—­La Bruyere.

There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.  —­Proverbs 11:24.

Liberality consists less in giving profusely, than in giving judiciously.—­La Bruyere.

The liberal soul shall be made fat; and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.—­Proverbs 11:25.

Liberty.—­The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time.  —­Thomas Jefferson.

’Tis liberty alone that gives the flower
Of fleeting life, its lustre and perfume;
And we are weeds without it. 

          
                          —­Cowper.

The love of liberty that is not a real principle of dutiful behavior to authority is as hypocritical as the religion that is not productive of a good life.—­Bishop Butler.

Liberty must be limited in order to be enjoyed.—­Burke.

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