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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
Knowledge is proud that it knows so much wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, The positive pronounce without dismay.
Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books.
Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home.