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What a man knows should find its expression in what he does; the value of superior knowledge is chiefly in that it leads to a performing manhood.

What is not fully understood is not possessed.

What novelty is worth the sweet monotony where everything is known, and loved because it is known?

Whatever our intellectual calling, no kind of knowledge is antagonistic to it. - All varieties of knowledge blend with, harmonize, and enrich the one kind of knowledge to which we attach our reputation.

When a king asked Euclid, whether he could not explain his art to him in a more compendious manner, he was answered, that there was no royal way to geometry. Other things may be seized by might, or purchased with money; but knowledge is to be gained only by study, and study to be prosecuted only in retirement.

With the gain of knowledge, connect the habit of imparting it. This increases mental wealth by putting it in circulation; and it enhances the value of our knowledge to ourselves, not only in its depth, confirmation, and readiness for use, but in that acquaintance with human nature, that self-command, and that reaction of moral training upon ou­selves, which are above all price.

You don't need to know many things to succeed and get rich, if you know the few things that are important.

You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.

Your learning, like the lunar beam, affords light but not heat; it leaves you undevout, and frozen at heart, while speculation shines.

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.


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