It is not so important to know everything as to know the exact value of everything, to appreciate what we learn, and to arrange what we know.
It is not so important to know everything as to know the exact value of everything, to appreciate what we learn, and to arrange what we know.
My plan of instruction is extremely simple and limited. They learn, on week-days, such coarse works as may fit them for servants. I allow of no writing for the poor. My object is not to make fanatics, but to train up the lower classes in habits of industry and piety.
The constant habit of perusing devout books is so indispensable, that it has been termed the oil of the lamp of prayer. Too much reading, however, and too little meditation, may produce the effect of a lamp inverted which is extinguished by the very excess of that ailment, whose property is to feed it.
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