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ing upon ourselves, which are above all price.-Mrs. Sigourney.

Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.—Bp. Hall.

A taste of every sort of knowledge is necessary to form the mind, and is the only way to give the understanding its due improvement to the full extent of its capacity. -Locke.

Does your doctor know anything?—I don't mean about medicine, but about things in general?—Is he a man of information and good sense ?—If he does not know anything but medicine, the chance is that he does not know much about that.

Knowledge once gained casts a light beyond its own immediate boundaries.— Tyndall.

To know by rote is no knowledge; it is only a retention of what is entrusted to the memory. That which a man truly knows may be disposed of without regard to the author, or reference to the book from whence he had it.—Montaigne.

The knowledge 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 our need.-Leibnitz.

Properly, there is no other knowledge but that which is got by working: the rest is yet all a hypothesis of knowledge; a thing to be argued of in schools; a thing floating in the clouds, in endless logic-vortices, till we try and fix it.— Carlyle.

To know that which before us lies in daily life, is the prime wisdom; what is more is fume, or emptiness, or fond impertinence, and renders us, in things that most concern, unpracticed and unprepared. -Milton.

Knowledge has, in our time, triumphed, and is triumphing, over prejudice and over bigotry. The civilized and Christian world is fast learning the great lesson, that difference of nation does not imply necessary hostility, and that all contact need not be war. The whole world is becoming a common field for intellect to act in. Energy of mind, genius, power, wheresoever it exists, may speak out in any tongue, and the world will hear it.-Daniel Webster.

The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.-Disraeli.

The shortest and the surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to remount the

first principles, and take nobody's word about them.-Bolingbroke.

Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, have oft-times no connection.-Knowledge dwells 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.-Cowper.

That only is true knowledge of God which regenerates and conforms us to God. -Calvin.

Two persons take trouble in vain, and use fruitless endeavors, he who acquires wealth without enjoying it, and he who is taught wisdom but does not practice it. How much soever you may study science, when you do not act wisely you are ignorant. The beast whom they load with books is not profoundly learned and wise; what knoweth his empty skull whether he carrieth firewood or books ?-Saadi.

Even human knowledge is permitted to approximate in some degree, and on certain occasions, to that of the Deity, its pure and primary source; and this assimilation is never more conspicuous than when it converts evil into the means of producing its opposite good.— Colton.

Knowledge may not be as a courtesan, for pleasure and vanity only; or as a bondswoman, to acquire and gain for her master's use; but as a spouse, for generation, fruit, and comfort.-Bacon.

The profoundly wise do not declaim against superficial knowledge in others, so much as the profoundly ignorant; on the contrary, they would rather assist it with their advice than overwhelm it with their contempt; for they know that there was a period when even a Bacon or a Newton were superficial, and that he who has a little knowledge is far more likely to get more than he that has none.-Colton.

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.-Fuller.

Nothing in this life, after health and virtue, is more estimable than knowledge, nor is there anything so easily attained, or so cheaply purchased, -the labor, only sitting still, and the expense but time, which, if we do not spend, we cannot save.Sterne.

Many of the supposed increasers of knowledge have only given a new name, and often a worse, to what was well known before.Hare.

Knowledge and good parts, managed by grace, are like the rod in the hand of Moses, -wonder-workers; but they turn to ser

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pents when they are cast upon the ground, and are employed in wicked designs.-Arrowsmith.

The learning thou gettest by thine own observation and experience, is far beyond that thou gettest by precept, as the knowledge of a traveler exceeds that which is got by reading.-Thomas à Kempis.

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession, a property entirely our own. A greater vividness and permanency of impression is secured, and facts thus acquired become registered in the mind in a way that mere imparted information can never produce.-Carlyle.

When a king asked Euclid, whether he could not explain his art to him in a more compendious manner, he was answered, that there was no royal way to geometry. Other things may be seized by might, or purchased with money; but knowledge is to be gained only by study, and study to be prosecuted only in retirement.-Johnson.

The more we have read, the more we have learned, and the more we have meditated, the better conditioned we are to affirm that we know nothing.- Voltaire.

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of a wise man.-Penn.

'Tis the property of all true knowledge, especially spiritual, to enlarge the soul by filling it; to enlarge it without swelling it : to make it more capable, and more earnest to know, the more it knows.-Sprat.

How empty learning, and how vain is art, but as it mends the life and guides the heart.-Young.

Knowledge and timber should not be much used until they are seasoned.-O. W. Holmes.

Man often acquires just so much knowledge as to discover his ignorance, and attains so much experience as to see and regret his follies, and then dies.-Clulow.

Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in advanced age, and if we do not plant it while young, it will give us no shade when we grow old. Chesterfield.

Your learning, like the lunar beam, affords light but not heat; it leaves you undevout, and frozen at heart, while speculation shines.-Young.

Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teachi wisdom.-Collier.

What we know here is very little, but what we are ignorant of is immense.-Laplace.

Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men ; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge, than to his father Philip for giving him life.

Every generation enjoys the use of a vast hoard bequeathed to it by antiquity, and transmits that hoard, augmented by fresh acquisitions, to future ages.-Macaulay.

He that sips of many arts, drinks of none. -Fuller.

Knowledge will not be acquired without pains and application. It is troublesome and deep digging for pure waters; but when once you come to the spring, they rise up and meet you.-Felton.

The end of all knowledge should be in virtuous action.-Sir P. Sidney.

Real knowledge, in its progress, is the forerunner of liberality and enlightened toleration.-Brougham.

He who calls in the aid of an equal understanding, doubles his own; and he who profits by a superior understanding, raises his powers to a level with the height of the understanding he unites with.—Burke.

A great deal of knowledge, which is not capable of making a man wise, has a natural tendency to make him vain and arrogant.-Addison.

Every man of sound brain whom you meet knows something worth knowing better than yourself. A man, on the whole, is a better preceptor than a book. But what scholar does not allow that the dullest book can suggest to him a new and a sound idea? -Bulwer.

A little knowledge leads the mind from God. Unripe thinkers use their learning to authenticate their doubts. While unbelief has its own dogma, more peremptory than the inquisitor's, patient meditation brings the scholar back to humbleness. He learns that the grandest truths appear slowly.- Willmott.

It is in knowledge as it is in plants; if you mean to use the plant, it is no matter for the roots; if you mean it to grow, it is safer to rest upon roots than upon slips. -Bacon.

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.-Juvenal.

Some men think that the gratification of curiosity is the end of knowledge; some the love of fame; some the pleasure of dispute; some the necessity of supporting themselves by their knowledge; but the real use of all knowledge is this, that we

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should dedicate that reason which was given us by God to the use and advantage of man.-Bacon.

As soon as a true thought has entered our mind, it gives a light which makes us see a crowd of other objects which we have never perceived before.-Chateaubriand.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it away from him.—An investment in knowledge always.pays the best. interest.-Franklin.

Human learning, with the blessing of God upon it, introduces us to divine wisdom; and while we study the works of nature, the God of nature will manifest himself to us; since, to a well-tutored mind, "The heavens declare his glory, and the firmament sheweth his handy work."-Bp. Horne.

Knowledge always desires increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterward propagate itself.-Johnson.

The dangers of knowledge are not to be compared with the dangers of ignorance. Man is more likely to miss his way in darkness than in twilight; in twilight than in full sun.- Whately.

One part of knowledge consists in being ignorant of such things as are not worthy to be known.-Crates.

Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candle at our lamp, without depriving ourselves of any flame.-Jane Porter.

The best part of our knowledge is that which teaches us where knowledge leaves off and ignorance begins.-O. W. Holmes.

Knowledge that terminates in curiosity and speculation is inferior to that which is useful; and of all useful knowledge that is the most so which consists in a due care and just notion of ourselves.-St. Bernard.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am very content with knowing, if only I could know. That is an august entertainment, and would suffice me a great while. To know a little would be worth the expense of this world.Emerson.

Those who come last enter with advantage. They are born to the wealth of antiquity. The materials for judging are prepared, and the foundations of knowledge are laid to their hands.-Besides, if the point was tried by antiquity, antiquity would lose it, for the present age is really the oldest, and has the largest experience to plead.-Collier.

Base-minded they that lack intelligence; for God himself for wisdom most is praised,

and men to God thereby are highest raised. -Spenser.

The word knowledge, strictly employed, implies three things, viz., truth, proof, and conviction.-Whately.

Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in fame, unlimited in space, and infinite in duration. In the performance of its sacred offices, it fears no danger, spares no expense, looks in the volcano, dives into the ocean, perforates the earth, wings its flight into the skies, explores sea and land, contemplates the distant, examines the minute, compreIrends the great, ascends to the sublimeno place too remote for its grasp, no height too exalted for its reach.-De Witt Clinton.

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LABOR.-Labor was the primal curse, but it was softened into mercy, and made the pledge of cheerful days, and nights without a groan.-Cowper.

Next to faith in God, is faith in labor.Bovee.

Nothing is denied to well-directed labor, and nothing is ever to be attained without it.-Sir J. Reynolds.

Without labor nothing prospers.-Sophocles.

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other. Yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up to no science entirely, for science is but one. -Seneca.

The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of all pleasures.- Vauvenargues.

Labor is the divine law of our existence repose is desertion and suicide.-Mazzini. A man's best friends are his ten fingers. -Robert Collyer.

God intends no man to live in this world without working; but it seems to me no less evident that He intends every man to be happy in his work.—Ruskin.

Men seldom die of hard work; activity is God's medicine. The highest genius is willingness and ability to do hard work. Any other conception of genius makes it a doubtful, if not a dangerous possession.— R. S. MacArthur.

Labor rids us of three great evils-irksomeness, vice, and poverty.— Voltaire.

Labor is one of the great elements of society-the great substantial interest on which we all stand. Not feudal service, or

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predial toil, or the irksome drudgery by one race of inankind subjected, on account of their color, to another; but labor, intelligent, manly, independent, thinking and acting for itself, earning its own wages, accumulating those wages into capital, educating childhood, maintaining worship, claiming the right of the elective franchise, and helping to uphold the great fabric of the State-that is American labor; and all my sympathies are with it, and my voice, till I am dumb, will be for it.-Daniel Webster.

From labor, health; from health, contentment springs.—Beattie.

Blessed is the man that has found his work.-One monster there is in the world, the idle man.—Carlyle.

As steady application to work is the healthiest training for every individual, so is it the best discipline of a state. Honorable industry alway travels the same road with enjoyment and duty, and progress is altogether impossible without it.-S. Smiles.

It is only by labor that thought can be made healthy, and only by thought that labor can be made happy; and the two cannot be separated with impunity.-Ruskin.

If you divorce capital from labor, capital is hoarded, and labor starves. Daniel Webster.

Labor is rest from the sorrows that greet us; from all the petty vexations that ineet us; from the sin-promptings that assail us from the world-sirens that lure us to ill.-F. S. Osgood.

sleep so soundly, nor be so healthful, so useful, so strong, so patient, so noble, nor so untempted.—Jeremy Taylor.

You and I toiling for earth, may at the same time be toiling for heaven, and every day's work may be a Jacob's ladder reaching up nearer to God.-Theodore Parker.

Work is a great blessing; after evil came into the world, it was given as an antidote, not as a punishment.-A. S. Hardy.

No abilities, however splendid, can command success without intense labor and persevering application.-A. T. Stewart.

Alexander the Great, reflecting on his friends degenerating into sloth and luxury, told them that it was a most slavish thing to luxuriate, and a most royal thing to labor.-Barrow.

The guard of virtue is labor, and ease her sleep.-Tasso.

Do what thou dost as if the earth were heaven, and thy last day the day of judgment.-C. Kingsley.

Labor is life; from the inmost heart of the worker rises his God-given force, the sacred celestial life-essence breathed into him by Almighty God!-Carlyle.

The pernicious, debilitating tendencies of bodily pleasure need to be counteracted by the invigorating exercises of bodily labor; whereas, bodily labor without bodily pleasure converts the body into a mere machine, and brutifies the soul.-Anon.

The labor of the body relieves us from the fatigues of the mind; and this it is which forms the happiness of the poor. Rochefoucauld.

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.—Joubert.

Toil and pleasure, in their nature opposites, are yet linked together in a kind of necessary connection.-Livy.

Love, therefore, labor; if thou shouldst not want it for food, thou mayest for physic. It is wholesome to the body and good for the mind; it prevents the fruit of idleness. -Penn.

Avoid idleness, and fill up all the spaces of thy time with severe and useful employment; for lust easily creeps in at those emptinesses where the soul is unemployed and the body is at ease; for no easy, healthful, idle person was ever chaste if he could be tempted; but of all employments, bodily labor is the most useful, and of the greatest benefit for driving away the Devil.-Jeremy Taylor.

What men want is not talent, it is purpose; in other words, not the power to

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achieve, but will to labor. I believe that labor judiciously and continuously applied becomes genius.-Bulwer.

There are many ways of being frivolous, only one way of being intellectually great; that is honest labor.-Sidney Smith.

Whatever there is of greatness in the United States, or indeed in any other country, is due to labor. The laborer is the author of all greatness and wealth. Without labor there would be no government, and no leading class, and nothing to preserve. -U. S. Grant.

Hard workers are usually honest; industry lifts them above temptation.-Bovee.

It is to labor and to labor only, that man owes everything of exchangeable value. Labor is the talisman that has raised him from the condition of the savage; that has changed the desert and the forest into cultivated fields; that has covered the earth with cities, and the ocean with ships; that has given us plenty, comfort, and elegance, instead of want, misery, and barbarism.J. Macculloch.

The lottery of honest labor, drawn by time, is the only one whose prizes are worth taking up and carrying home.-Theodore Parker.

If we would have anything of benefit, we must earn it, and earning it becomé shrewd, inventive, ingenious, active, enterprising.-H. W. Beecher.

None so little enjoy themselves, and are such burdens to themselves, as those who have nothing to do.-Only the active have the true relish of life.-Jay.

Labor is the great producer of wealth; it moves all other causes.-Daniel Webster. Miserable is he who slumbers on in idleness.-There is no rest from labor on earth.—Man is born to work, and he must work while it is day.-Said a great worker, "Have I not eternity to rest in?"-Tyn

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There is but one method of success, and that is hard labor; and a man who will not pay that price for distinction had better at once dedicate himself to the pursuit of the fox.—Sydney Smith.

Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.Johnson.

Men give me some credit for genius. All the genius I have lies just in this: When I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. I explore it in all its bearings. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort

which I make the people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.-Alexander Hamilton.

No way has been found for making heroism easy, even for the scholar. Labor, iron labor, is for him. The world was created as an audience for him; the atoms of which it is made are opportunities.-Emerson.

I have no secret of success but hard work.-E. Turner.

The necessity of labor is a part of the primeval curse; and all the beauty, or glory, or diguity pertaining to it, depends on the ends to which it is the means.—Bristed.

Labor-the expenditure of vital effort in some form, is the measure, nay, it is the maker of values.-J. G. Holland.

Nothing is impossible to the man who can will, and then do; this is the only law of success.-Mirabeau.

Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.-Sir H. Davy.

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests. Coleridge.

What would the science of language be without missions.-Max Muller.

Language is the amber in which a thousand precious thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved. It has arrested ten thousand lightning-flashes of genius, which, unless thus fixed and arrested, might have been as bright, but would have also been as quickly passing and perishing as the lightning. Words convey the mental treasures of one period to the generations that follow; and laden with this, their precious freight, they sail safely across gulfs of time in which empires have suffered shipwreck, and the languages of common life have sunk into oblivion.Trench.

Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee; it springs out of the most retired and inmost part of us.-Ben Jonson.

The common people do not accurately adapt their thoughts to objects; nor, secondly, do they accurately adapt their words to their thoughts; they do not mean