A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations / Consisting of Choice Passages from the Sacred Poetry of All Ages and Countries, Classified and Arranged, for Facility of Reference, Under Subject Headings; Illustrated by Striking Passages from Scripture, and Forming Altogether a Complete Book of Devotional Poetry.

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Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.

Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass,

The mere materials with which wisdom builds,

Till smooth’d and squared, and fitted to its place,

Does but encumber whom it seems t’ enrich.

Knowledge is proud that he has learn’d so much,

Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

Cowper.

Thus wisdom’s words discover

Thy glory and Thy grace,