 | Melvin Jonah Lasky - Political Science - 752 pages
...roave Uncheck'd, and of her roaving is no end, Till, warn'd, or by experience taught, she learne That not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure...more is fume, Or emptiness, or fond impertinence. It was in this sense that Milton drew a line between himself and the fictions of More and Bacon. He... | |
 | Reference - 2004 - 516 pages
...wise. — Benjamin Franklin Be wise; Soar not too high to fall; but stoop to rise. — Philip Massinger To know That which before us lies in daily life Is the prime wisdom. — -John Milton It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well. — Rene Descartes... | |
 | Patrick J. Keane - Literary Collections - 2005 - 575 pages
...by the archangel Raphael to be "lowly wise," turns away from "things remote" to "know" instead that "That which before us lies in daily life / Is the prime wisdom" (PL 8:173, 191-94). However exalted the heights they reach, Wordsworth and Emerson are "grounded" visionaries.... | |
 | Stewart Justman - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 175 pages
...the ordinary follows upon "the affirmation of ordinary life" that began a century and more before.32 "To know / That which before us lies in daily life / Is the prime wisdom," states Milton.33 But instead of tracing our suspicion of the heroic back into the past by increments,... | |
 | Denny Gunderson - Religion - 2006 - 216 pages
...Thankfully, God never uses the implements of depraved human beings to accomplish anything in his kingdom. To know that which before us lies in daily life, is the prime wisdom. — JOHN MILTON The Key Ingredients of Servant Leadership Many ingredients must go into the mix for... | |
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That not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure and subtle, but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom... 
