Chapter KNOWLEDGE to LAME of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

KNOWLEDGE to LAME

KNOWLEDGE.—Just notions will into good actions grow,
And to our reason we our virtues owe;
False judgments are the unhappy source of ill,
And blinded error draws the passive will.
To know one God, and know ourselves, is all,
We can true happiness or wisdom call.

Reading.—Christian instructed. 3 Notes and Queries, 240.

Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.

Daniel, Chap. XII. Verse 4.

Beyond abstain
To ask; nor let thine own inventions hope
Things not reveal’d which the invisible King,
Only omniscient, hath suppress’d in night;—
Enough is left besides to search and know.
Knowledge is as food, and needs no less
Her temperance over appetite.

Milton.—Par. Lost, Book VII.

KNOWLEDGE IS POWER.—

Bacon.—De Heresibus. Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est; for knowledge itself is power.

A wise man is strong; yea, a man of knowledge increaseth strength.

Solomon.—Book of Proverbs, Chap XXIV. Verse 5.

LABOUR.—As we are born to work, so others are born to watch over us while we are working.

Goldsmith.—Essay, Specimen of a Magazine; Article “Speech.”

Such hath it been—shall be—beneath the sun,
The many still must labour for the one!

Byron.—The Corsair, Canto I. Stanza 8.

I have had my labour for my travel.

Shakespeare.—Troilus and Cressida, Act I. Scene 1.

We are pouring our words into a pierced cask: we are losing our pains.

1 Riley’s Plautus, Pseudolus, Act I. Scene 3. Page 274.

LABOUR.—Labour like this, our want supplies,
And they must stoop who mean to rise.

Cowper.—Satire IX.

He caught the attention of both old and young.—Labour stood still as he passed—the bucket hung suspended in the middle of the well—the spinning-wheel forgot its round—even chuckfarthing and shuffle-cap themselves stood gaping till he had got out of sight.

Sterne.—Tristram Shandy, Chap. X.; George Combe, Doctor Syntax, Chap. V.

The sempster sat still as I pass’d by,
And dropt her needle! fishwives stay’d their cry!

Ben Jonson.—Time Vindicated.

The whole company were in astonishment: whist stood still; quadrille laid down the cards; and brag was in suspense.