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knowledge men order
Men are more readily contented with no intellectual light than with a little; and wherever they have been taught to acquire some knowledge in order to please others, they have most generally gone on to acquire more, to please themselves. Charles Caleb Colton
knowledge simplicity complicated
The further we advance in knowledge, the more simplicity shall we discover in those primary rules that regulate all the apparently endless, complicated, and multiform operations of the Godhead.
knowledge class ferns
In the pursuit of knowledge, follow it wherever it is to be found; like fern, it is the produce of all climates, and like coin, its circulation is not restricted to any particular class.
knowledge performances pretension
The highest knowledge can be nothing more than the shortest and clearest road to truth; all the rest is pretension, not performance, mere verbiage and grandiloquence, from which we can learn nothing.
knowledge discovery views
It has been observed that a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant will see farther than the giant himself; and the moderns, standing as they do on the vantage ground of former discoveries and uniting all the fruits of the experience of their forefathers, with their own actual observation, may be admitted to enjoy a more enlarged and comprehensive view of things than the ancients themselves.
knowledge pay despise
To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.
knowledge perfect brain
The seat of perfect contentment is in the head; for every individual is thoroughly satisfied with his own proportion of brains.
knowledge science two
Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.
knowledge world lifts
Let no knowledge satisfy but that which lifts above the world, which weans from the world, which makes the world a footstool. Charles Spurgeon
zealous failing conversion
The most zealous converters are always the most rancorous when they fail of producing conversion.
zealous zeal ifs
When you are laboring for others, let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself. Confucius
zealand
Please, Ma' am, is this New Zealand or Australia? Lewis Carroll
zealand
Down in New Zealand now, there will be a lot of celebrating, Peter Jackson
zealous savior disciple
A zealous Savior ought to have zealous disciples. J. C. Ryle
zeal all-things
Nothing to build, and all things to destroy. John Dryden
zealous ends commencement
Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end. Tacitus
zeal
The hopes of zeal are not wholly groundless. Samuel Johnson
zeal contention seems
It would seem that zeal is not an effect of love. For zeal is a beginning of contention. Thomas Aquinas