386 IGNORANCE IMAGINATION
A man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths, which his mind was capable of knowing, and that with certainty.
Locke—Human Understanding. Bk. I. Ch. II.
But let a man know that there are things to
be known, of which he is ignorant, and it is so
much carved out of his domain of universal
knowledge.
Horace Mann—Lectures on Education. Lecture VI.
Not to know me argues yourselves unknown,
The lowest of your throng.
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| work = Paradise Lost.
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The living man who does not learn, is dark,
dark, like one walking in the night.
Ming Lum Paou Keen. Trans, for Chinese
Repository by Dr. Wm. Milne.
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| text = Quod latet ignotum est; ignoti nulla cupido.
What is hid is unknown: for what is unknown there is no desire.
Ovny—Ars Amatoria. III. 397.
It is better to be unborn than untaught: for
ignorance is the root of misfortune.
Plato.
Etiam illud quod scies nesciveris;
Ne videris quod videris.
Know not what you know, and see not
what you see.
Plautus—Miles Cfloriosus. II. 6. 89.
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From ignorance our comfort flows,
The only wretched are the wise.
Prior—To the Hon. Chas. Montague. (1692)
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llli mors gravis incubat qui notus nimis omnibus ignotus moritur sibi.
Death presses heavily on that man, who,
being but too well known to others, dies in
ignorance of himself.
Seneca—Thyestes. CCCCI.
O thou monster, Ignorance, how deformed
dost thou look!
Love's Labour's Lost. Act rV. Sc. 2. L. 21.
Madam, thou errest: I say, there is no darkness, but ignorance; in which thou art more puzzled, than the Egyptians in their fog.
Twelfth Night. ActrV. Sc. 2. L. 44.
The more we study, we the more discover our
ignorance.
Shelley—Scenes from the Magico Prodigioso
of Calderon. Sc. 1.
Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.
Everything unknown is magnified.
Tacitus—Agrkola. XXX. Quoting Galgacus, the British leader, to his subjects before the battle of the Grampian Hills.
Ritter says the sentence may be a "marginal gloss and brackets it. Anticipated by
Thucydides—Speech of Nicias. VI. 11. 4.
- * * Where blind and naked Ignorance
Delivers brawling judgments, unashamed,
On all things all day long.
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| work = IdyUsoftheKing. Vivien. L. 515.
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| text = Homine imperito nunquam quidquid injustius,
Qui nisi quod ipse facit nihil rectum putat.
Nothing can be more unjust than the ignorant man, who thinks that nothing is well
done by himself.
Terencei—Adelphi. I. 2. 18.
Ita me dii ament, ast ubi sim nescio.
As God loves me, I know not where I am.
Terence—Heauton timoroumenos. II. 3. 67.
Namque inscitia est,
Adversum stimulum calces.
It is consummate ignorance to kick against
the pricks.
Terence:—Phormio. I. 2. 27.
IMAGINATION
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| text = Imagination is the air of mind.
Bailey—Festus. Sc. Another and a Better
World.
Build castles in the air.
| author = Burton
| work = Anatomy of Melancholy.
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II. Memb. 1. Subsect. 3. Also in Romaunt
of the Rose.
Come nous dicimus in nubibus.
(As we said in the clouds.)
John Rastell—Les Termes delaLey. (1527)
- * * his master was in a manner always
in a wrong Boxe and building castels in the ayre
or catching Hares with Tabers.
Letter by F. A. to L. B. 1575-76. Repr. in
Miscell. Antiq. Anglic.
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lars, Watson)
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| text = <poem>Thou hast the keys of Paradise, O just, subtle,
and mighty opium!
De Quincey—Confessions of an Opium Eater.
Pt. II.
And castels buylt above in lofty skies,
Which never yet had good foundation.
Gascoigne—Steel Glass. Arber's reprint. P.
55.
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| text = <poem>Es ist nichts furchterlicher als Einbildungskraft ohne Geschmack.
There is nothing more fearful than imagination without taste.
Goethe—Spruche in Prosa. III.
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| num = | text = <poem>Build castles in Spain. | author = Herbert | work = Jacula Prudentum. Lore feras
chastiaus en Espaigne. Guillaume de Ixjrris—Roman de la Rose. 2452. Et fais chasteaulx en Espaigne et en France. Charles d'Orleans—Rondeau. Etlesonger fait chasteaux en Asie. Pierre Grangoire—Menus Propos. Tout fin seullet les chasteaux d'Albanye. Le Verger d'Honneur.
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