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How to Prolong Life

C. DeLacy Evans - Health & Fitness - 1996 - 236 pages
...of the good, and upon it construct a castle of wisdom — but not at the expense of bodily health. " Knowledge and Wisdom, far from being one, Have ofttimes...materials with which Wisdom builds, Till smooth'd, and squar'd, and fitted to its place, Doth but encumber whom it seems t' enrich. Knowledge is proud that...
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Physically Speaking: A Dictionary of Quotations on Physics and Astronomy

C.C. Gaither - Science - 1997 - 510 pages
...Mentis (p. 78) Cowper, William Knowledge and Wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connextion. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of...mass, The mere materials with which wisdom builds . . . Knowledge is proud that he has leam'd so much; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more. The Complete...
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Osler: Inspirations from a Great Physician

Charles S. Bryan - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 290 pages
...repeating in a medical audience: Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connexion. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of...Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more. What we call sense or...
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Famous Lines: A Columbia Dictionary of Familiar Quotations

Robert Andrews - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 666 pages
...(c. 1 380-1 386), repr. in The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, ed. Alfred W. Pollard, et al. (1898). 10 Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, The mere materials with which wisdom builds, Till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, Does but encumber whom it seems to enrich. Knowledge...
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Practically Speaking: A Dictionary of Quotations on Engineering, Technology ...

C.C. Gaither - Mathematics - 2019 - 390 pages
...Mentis (p. 78) Cowper, William Knowledge and Wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connextion. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of...mass, The mere materials with which wisdom builds . . . Knowledge is proud that he has learn'd so much; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more. The Complete...
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Little Gems of Wisdom: Advice from Grandpa

J. D. Kroft - Reference - 2000 - 310 pages
...destroyed. ' —Proverbs 13:20 Adversity makes a man wise, not rich, —lohn Ray Knowledge dwells in the heads replete with thoughts of other men; wisdom in minds attentive to their own. —William Cowper Wisdom comes by disillusionment. —George SawtapHa Speed is good when wisdom leads...
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Charles W. Chesnutt: Essays and Speeches: Essays and Speeches

Joseph R. McElrath, Jr., Robert C. Leitz, Jesse S. Crisler - Literary Collections - 2001 - 644 pages
...give us knowledge; Discipline will teach us how to make a wise use of it. Remember what Cowper says. Knowledge and Wisdom, far from being one, Have ofttimes...Knowledge dwells, In heads replete with thoughts of others; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.' What I include under the term Discipline in this case...
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Osler's "a Way of Life" and Other Addresses, with Commentary and Annotations

Sir William Osler - Medical ethics - 2001 - 416 pages
...wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connexion. Knowledge dwells r , . , , , . , . THE STUDENT In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.78 What we call sense...
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Residents’ Teaching Skills

Janine C. Edwards, Joan A. Friedland, Robert Bing-You - Medical - 2002 - 288 pages
...of quoting [William] Cowper: Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connexion. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of...Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more. them both by support...
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The Shaping of Indian Science: 1914-1947

Indian Science Congress - 2003 - 596 pages
...knowledge and wisdom. It was Cowper who wrote "Knowledge and Wisdom, far from being one, Have oft times no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with...Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge is proud, that he has learnt so much; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more." Whilst it is always...
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