To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humour of a scholar.
Empiricism, scientific method
To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humour of a scholar.
Empiricism, scientific method
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"For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self."
Humorous"In studies, whatsoever a man learneth, he must learn it as if he were to teach it."
Controversial"For it is a sure rule, that a man were better to be a suitor to the devil, than to a man whose heart is not open."
Strange & Unusual"The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall: but in charity there is no excess; neither can angel or man come in danger by it."
Strange & Unusual"Conquest, acquisition of peoples and territory through force, followed by subjugation, confers a legal right and title."
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