 | 1910 - 568 pages
...concerned with those things which will beautify the life and make the soul "repeat a holier strain." "How empty learning and how vain is art, But as it mends the life and guides the heart." The continued contemplation of things which are inherently beautiful will of itself eventually inspire... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1896 - 794 pages
...lose no credit. SWIFT. Aspiring, factious, fierce, and loud, With grace and learning unendow'd. SWIFT. How empty learning, and how vain is art, But as it mends the life, and guides the heart ! YOUNG : Last Day. Yoracious learning, often overfed, Digests not into sense her motley meal ; This... | |
 | 1897 - 184 pages
...scintillations of calumny and detraction, if you do not blow them, will extinguish themselves. BOERHAAVE. How empty learning, and how vain is art, But as it mends the life and guides the heart. YOUNG. Great things almost always have to grow with struggles. MRS. ADT WHITNEY. Read the best books... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 788 pages
...without swelling it ; to make it more capable, and more earnest to know, the more it knows. — Sprat. . if. F. Ossoli. IDEAS, — Ideas control the world. — liarfield. A healthful hunger — Young. Knowledge and timber should not be much used until they are seasoned.— OW Holme». Man... | |
 | Henry George Bohn, Anna Lydia Ward - 1911 - 784 pages
...dispense, And play the fool because they're men of sense. 2643 Young : Epistle to Pope. Epis. ii. Line 71. How empty learning, and how vain is art, But as it mends the life, and guides the heart! 2644 Young : Poem on the Last Day. Bk. ti. Line 171. Learning itself, received into a mind By nature... | |
 | Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert - 1912 - 702 pages
...is like mettle in a blind horse, which is often an occasion of the rider's fall. — THOMAS BROOKS. How empty learning, and how vain is art, But as it mends the life, and guides the heart ! — YOUHO. One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common sense to apply it. The wish falls... | |
 | Edward Young - 1917 - 140 pages
...well, does most good; and he that does most good, \ is the best author. Young, Vol. I, p. 7. 1714: How empty learning, and how vain is art, But as it mends the life, and guides the heart! Young, Vol. I, p. 273. 1712: Besides this great moral, which may be looked upon as the soul of the... | |
 | Edward Young - 1917 - 150 pages
...and well, does most good; and he that does most good, is the best author. Young, Vol. I, p. 7. 1714: How empty learning, and how vain is art, But as it mends the life, and guides the heart! Young, Vol. I, p. 273. 1712: Besides this great moral, which may be looked upon as the soul of the... | |
 | Mary Mapes Dodge - 1884 - 500 pages
...Red. II. i. Cap. 2. Lares. 3. Cantata. 4 Artisan. 5. Peasant. 6. Stand. 7. Ant. NUMERICAL ENIGMA. " How empty learning, and how vain is art. But as it mends the life, and guides the heart!" ARROW-HEAD. Across: i. Alder. 2. Aulic. 3. Copal. 4. Taper, 5. Helen. REBUS. The Queen of Hearts, she... | |
 | Anne Ruggles Gere - 1997 - 394 pages
...for the nineteenth annual convention of the Colored Women's Clubs of Colorado, for example, stated: "How empty learning, and how vain is art, But as it mends the life and guides the heart." Mending life meant eliminating Jim Crow laws and lynchings and creating ways of recognizing and affirming... | |
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How empty learning, and how vain is art, But as it mends the life, and guides the heart! 
