--CHESTERFIELD.
In reading authors, when you find
Bright passages, that strike your mind,
And which, perhaps, you may have reason
To think on, at another season,
Be not contented with the sight,
But take them down in black and white;
Such a respect is wisely shown,
As makes another's sense one's own.
--BYRON.
Early knowledge is very valuable capital with which to set forth in
life. It gives one an advantageous start. If the possession of
knowledge has a given value at fifty, it has a much greater value at
twenty-five; for there is the use of it for twenty-five of the most
important years of your life; and it is worth more than a hundred per
cent interest. Indeed, who can estimate the interest of knowledge? Its
price is above rubies.--WINSLOW.
Knowledge is
Bought only with a weary care,
And wisdom means a world of pain.
--JOAQUIN MILLER.
The knowledge which we have acquired ought not to resemble a great
shop without order, and without an inventory; we ought to know what we
possess, and be able to make it serve us in need.--LEIBNITZ.
Knowledge is power as well as fame.--RUFUS CHOATE.
Knowledge is leagued with the universe, and findeth a friend in all
things; but ignorance is everywhere a stranger, unwelcome; ill at ease
and out of place.--TUPPER.
A Persian philosopher, being asked by what method he had acquired so
much knowledge, answered, "By not being prevented by shame from asking
questions where I was ignorant.
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