For Satan finds some mischief still
For idle hands to do.
'Tis the voice of the sluggard, I heard him complain:
"You have waked me too soon, I must slumber again";
As the door on its hinges, so he on his bed,
Turns his sides, and his shoulders and his heavy head.
But how can he expect that others should
Build for him, sow for him, and at his call
Love him, who for himself will take no heed at
all?
Wordsworth—Resolution and Independence.
St. 6.
Worldlings revelling in the fields
Of strenuous idleness.
Wordsworth—This Lawn, a Carpet all alive.
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IGNORANCE
Be ignorance thy choice, where knowledge
leads to woe.
Beatcte—The Minstrel. Bk. II. St. 30.
For "ignorance is the mother of devotion," as
all the world knows.
| author = Burton
| work = Anatomy of Melancholy.
| place = Pt. III.
Sec. IV. Memb. 1. Subsect. 2. Phrase
used by Dr. Cole—Disputation with the
Papists at Westminster, March 31, 1559.
Quoted from Cole by Bishop Jewel—
Works. Vol. III. Pt. II. P. 1202. Quoted
as a "Popish maxim" by Thos. Vincent—
Explicatory Catechism. Epistle to the Reader
about 1622. Said by Jeremy Taylor—
To a person newly converted to the Church of
England. (1657) Same found in New Custome. I. I. A Morality printed 1573.
(True devotion.)
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The truest characters of ignorance
Are vanity, and pride, and annoyance.
Butler—Hudibras.
Causarum ignoratio in re nova mirationem facit.
In extraordinary events ignorance of their
causes produces astonishment.
Cicero—De Divinatione. II. 22.
Ignoratione rerum bonarum et malarum
maxime hominum vita vexatur.
Through ignorance of what is good and what
is bad, the life of men is greatly perplexed.
Cicero—De Fmibus Bonorum et Malorwm. I.
.
Non me pudet fateri nescire quod nesciam.
I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know .
Cicero—Tusc. Quasi. I. 25. 60.
Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge, but
passes into it through an intermediate state of
obscurity, even as night into day through twilight.
Coleridge—Essay XVI.
Ignorance never settles a question.
Benj. Disraeli—Speech in House of Commons, May 14, 1866.
Mr. Kremlin himself was distinguished for ignorance, for he had only one idea, and that was
wrong.
Benj. Disraeli—Sybil. Bk. IV. Ch. V.
For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
Dryden—The Maiden Queen. Act I. Sc. 2.
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{{Hoyt quote
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George Eliot—Daniel Deronda. Bk. II.
Ch. XIII.
Ignorance is the dominion of absurdity.
Froude—Short Studies on Great Subjects. Party Politics.
Often the cock-loft is empty, in those whom
nature hath built many stories high.
Fuller—Andronicus. Sec. VI. Par. 18. 1.
Es ist nichts schrecklicher als eine thatige
Unwissenheit.
There is nothing more frightful than an
active ignorance.
Goethe—Spruche in Prosa. III.
And his best riches, ignorance of wealth.
| author = Goldsmith
| work = Deserted Village. L. 61.
Where ignorance is bliss,
'Tis folly to be wise.
Gray—On a Distant Prospect of Eton College.
St. 10. Same idea in Euripides—Fragment.
Antip. XIII.
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| text = <poem>Who ne'er knew salt, or heard the billows roar.
Homer—Odyssey. Bk. XI. L. 153
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It was a childish ignorance,
But now 'tis little joy
To know I'm further off from heaven
Than when I was a boy.
Hood—/ Remember, I Remember.
Ignorance, madam, pure ignorance.
Samuel Johnson, in reply to the lady who
asked why "pastern" was defined in the
dictionary as "the knee of the horse." Boswell's—Life. (1755)
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| text = <poem>Rien n'est si dangereux qu'un ignorant ami:
Mieux vaudrait un sage ennemi.
Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant
friend; a wise enemy is worth more.
La Fontaine—Fables. VIII. 10.
