| What's Ben |
What's Verse |
Education
see also HISTORY, LEARNING FROM EXPERIENCE and NONSENSE. |
| Of learned Fools I have seen ten times ten, Of unlearned wise men I have seen a hundred. [1735] | Not all PHD's
Learn life's ABC's. |
| Reading makes a full Man, Meditation a profound Man, discourse a clear Man. [1738] | Reading is feeding,
Thinking is
… linking. |
| Read much, but not many Books. [1738] | Re-reads insights
(Clicks on new lights). |
| The ancients tell us what is best; but we must learn of the moderns what is fittest. [1738] | From ancients, the Rays,
From moderns, the ways. |
Genius without Education is
like Silver in the Mine. [1750] | Mind untaught?
Unmined thought. |
| Proud Modern Learning despises the antient: School-men are now laughed at by School-boys. [1758] | New revision-ism:
Collision - then schism. |
| Faith & Possessions |
| How many observe Christ’s Birth-day! How few, his Precepts! O! ‘tis easier to keep Holidays than Commandments. [1743] | Set up evergreen joys
Above breakable toys. |
If your Riches are yours,
why don't you take them
with you to t'other World?
[1751] | All's mine in perpetuity
(Morgue, forward my annuity). |
| If worldly Goods cannot save me from Death, they ought not to hinder me of eternal life. [1751] | Wired home’s modernity Secures eternity? |
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