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Show Gems of bought LEARNING True wisdom is to know what is best worth knowing, and to do what is best worth doing. Humphrey. A heap of ill-chosen erudition is but the luggage of antiquity. Balzac. The aim of education should be to convert the mind into a living I fountain, and not a reservoir. That which is filled by merely pumping in, will be emptied by pumping out. John M. Mason. To know the laws of God in nature and revelation, and then to fashion the affections and will irto harmony with those laws this is education. S. F. Scovel. The first consideration a wse man fixeth upon is the great end of his creation; what it is, and wherein it consists; the next is of the most proper means to that end. Walker. Sooner or later we shall learn that the fetters of man's finite capacity are forged by the illusion that he lives in body instead of in Soul, in mattes instead , of in Spirit. Mary Baker Eddy. |