[1051:A] Won.
1052
Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in
an advanced age; and if we do not plant it while young, it will give us
no shade when we grow old.
1053
Ask the young people: they know everything!
1054
A Persian philosopher being asked by what method he had acquired so much
knowledge, replied, "By not being prevented by shame from asking
questions respecting things of which I was ignorant."
1055
Knowledge is not gained on a bed of roses.
1056
If you have knowledge let others light their candles at it.
--_Fuller._
1057
Men may acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools
the world has known have been learned men.
1058
I have never yet found a man who did not know something of which I was
ignorant.
1059
If we do not plant it (knowledge) when young, it will give us no shade
when we are old.
1060
Knowledge without practice is like a glass eye, all for show, and
nothing for use.
1061
_Johnson_:--I remember very well when I was at Oxford, an old gentleman
said to me,--"Young man, ply your book diligently now, and acquire a
stock of knowledge; for when years come upon you, you will find that
poring upon books will be but an irksome task."
--_Boswell's Johnson._
1062
The Earl of Morton said at John Knox's grave,--
"He lies there who never feared the face of man."
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1063