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1

If you can look into the seeds of time,
And say which grain will grow and which will not;
Speak then to me.

Macbeth. Act I. Sc. 3. L. 58.

2

But the full sum of me * *
Is an unlesson'd girl, unschool'd, unpractis'd;
Happy in this, she is not yet so old
But she may learn.

Merchant of Venice. Act III. Sc. 2. L. 159.

3

We think so because all other people think so;
Or because—or because—after all, we do think so;
Or because we were told so, and think we must think so;
Or because we once thought so, and think we still think so;
Or because, having thought so, we think we will think so.

Henry Sidgewick. Lines which came to him in his sleep. Referred to by Dr. William Osler—Harveian Oration, given in the South Place Magazine, Feb., 1907.

(See also Burton)

4

And thou my minde aspire to higher things;
Grow rich in that which never taketh rust.

Sir Philip Sidney—Sonnet. Leave me, O Love.

5

Sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge.

Sir Philip Sidney—Defence of Poesy.

6

He knew what is what.

Skelton—Why Come Ye not to Courte. L. 1,106.

(See also Butler)

7

A life of knowledge is not often a life of injury and crime.

Sydney Smith—Pleasures of Knowledge.

8

As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.

Socrates—Plato. Phædrus. Sec. CCXXXV

(See also Confucius, Owen, Stirling)

9

Yet all that I have learn'd (hugh toyles now past)
By long experience, and in famous schooles,
Is but to know my ignorance at last,
Who think themselves most wise are greatest fools.

William, Earl of Stirling—Recreation with the Muses. London. Fol. 1637. P. 7.

(See also Socrates)

10

Knowledge alone is the being of Nature,
Giving a soul to her manifold features,
Lighting through paths of the primitive darkness,
The footsteps of Truth and the vision of Song.

Bayard Taylor—Kilimandjaro. St. 2.

11

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

Tennyson—Locksley Hall. St. 71.

12

Who loves not Knowledge? Who shall rail
Against her beauty? May she mix
With men and prosper! Who shall fix
Her pillars? Let her work prevail.

Tennyson—In Memoriam. CXIV.

13

Faciunt næ intelligendo, ut nihil intelligant.

By too much knowledge they bring it about that they know nothing.

Terence—Andria. Prologue. XVII.

14

Namque inscitia est,
Adversum stimulum calces.

For it shows want of knowledge to kick against the goad.

Terence—Phormio. I. 24. 27.

15

Knowledge, in truth, is the great sun in the firmament. Life and power are scattered with all its beams.

Daniel Webster—Address. Delivered at the Laying of the Corner-Stone of Bunker Hill Monument, 1825.

16

Knowledge is the only fountain, both of the love and the principles of human liberty.

Daniel Webster—Address Delivered on Bunker Hill, June 17, 1843.

17

He who binds
His soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.

N. P. Willis—The Scholar of Thibèt Ben Khorat. II.

18

Oh, be wise, Thou!
Instructed that true knowledge leads to love.

Wordsworth—Lines left upon a Seat in a Yew-tree.

LABOR

(See also Work)

19

Labour in vain; or coals to Newcastle.

Anon. In a sermon to the people of Queen-Hith. Advertised in the Daily Courant, Oct. 6, 1709. Published in Paternoster Row, London. "Coals to Newcastle," or "from Newcastle," found in Heywood—If you Know Not Me. Pt. II. (1606) Gaunt—Bills of Mortality (1661) Middleton—Phœnix. Act I. Sc. 5. R. Thoresby—Correspondence. Letter June 29, 1682. Owls to Athens. (Athenian coins were stamped with the owl.) Aristophanes—Aves. 301. Diogenes Laertius—Lives of Eminent Philosophers. Plato. XXXII. You are importing pepper into Hindostan . From the Bustan of Sadi.

(See also Fuller, Horace)

20

Qui laborat, orat.

He who labours, prays.

 Attr. to St. Augustine.

(See also Bernard, Mulock, also Tennyson under Prayer)