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...aphorisms, says the proverb: "Fine words butter no parsnips." Not proverbs, insists Alfred North Whitehead's terse dictum: "Seek simplicity and distrust it." Still, both categories are noted not only for their concision but their consolation. Collectors of aphorisms may yet find support from the biblical proverb "Knowledge increaseth strength." As for the partisans of folk sayings, they can for once side with the fastidious William Wordsworth...
...Turner, whose surname Nat assumes. When the young slave steals a book, his master sees proof that Nat is no less a man than himself. An educational experiment begins, during which the pupil absorbs the rudiments of scholarship along with a bitter truth: "The preacher was right. He that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow...
...this case so pitifully deceived them. It were better that they should look upon such things in which the Class of 1961 has excelled, such as (exempla gratia) football and crew. Furthermore, as Ecclesiastes warned, much study is a weariness of the flesh (12:12), and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow (1:18). And, as St. Paul has said (I. Cor. 9:25), speaking of Olympic athletes, "Every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things." In stead of engaging in vain railings and obstinate goadings, the Administrators and Calculators should remind themselves of the Proverb...
...books? From these thousands of American colleges and universities, how many 'vital, creative books are born? The university of Walden Pond had "Whim" written above its doorposts, but it bred literature. There was once a type of productive scholar who may be described as "he that scattereth, and yet increaseth", but your amazing and multifarious activity is not much of it wastage rather than growth? Simplify! Coordinate! Find yourselves, and then lift up your hearts...
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