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=Knowledge exists to be imparted.= _Emerson._

=Knowledge has its penalties and pains as= 25 =well as its prizes.= _Bulwer Lytton._

=Knowledge hath a bewildering tongue, and she will stoop and lead you to the stars, and witch you with her mysteries, till gold is a forgotten dross, and power and fame toys of an hour, and woman's careless love light as the breath that breaks it.= _Willis._

=Knowledge humbleth the great man, astonisheth the common man, and puffeth up the little man.= _Pr._

=Knowledge in music is in the thinking, and not in memorising.= _H. E. Holt._

=Knowledge introduceth man to acquaintance; and, as the humble stream to the ocean, so doth it conduct him into the hard-acquired presence of the prince, whence fortune floweth.= _Hitopadesa._

=Knowledge is a perennial spring of wealth,= 30 = ... and of itself is riches.= _Saadi._

=Knowledge is a retreat and shelter for us in advanced age; and if we do not plant it when young, it will give us no shade when we grow old.= _Chesterfield._

=Knowledge is as food, and needs no less / Her temp'rance over appetite, to know / In measure what the mind may well contain, / Oppresses else with surfeit, and soon turns / Wisdom to folly, as nourishment to wind.= _Milton._

=Knowledge is boundless; human capacity limited.= _Chamfort._

=Knowledge is easy unto him that understandeth.= _Bible._

=Knowledge is escape from one's self.= (?) 35

=Knowledge is essential to freedom.= _Channing._

=Knowledge is just like the sun in the heavens, inviting us to noble deeds and lighting our path.= _M. Harvey._

=Knowledge is like current coin. A man may have some right to be proud of possessing it, (only) if he has worked for the gold of it, and assayed it, and stamped it, so that it may be received of all men as true, or earned it fairly, being already assayed.= _Ruskin._

=Knowledge is more than equivalent to force.= _Bacon._

=Knowledge is most surely engraved on brains= 40 =well prepared for it.= _Rousseau._

=Knowledge is no burden.= _Pr._

=Knowledge is not an inert and passive principle, which comes to us whether we will or no; but it must be sought before it can be won; it is the product of great labour, and therefore of great sacrifice.= _Buckle._

=Knowledge is not education, and can neither make us happy nor rich.= _Ruskin._

=Knowledge is not happiness, and science but an exchange of ignorance for that which is another kind of ignorance.= _Byron._

=Knowledge is of things we see; / And yet we= 45 =trust it comes from thee, / A beam in darkness; let it grow.= _Tennyson._

=Knowledge is power.= _Bacon._

=Knowledge is proud that he has learn'd so much; / Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.= _Cowper._

=Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.= _Addison._

=Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.= _Jeremy Collier._

=Knowledge is the excellency of man, whereby he is usually differenced from the brute.= _Swinnock._

=Knowledge is the knowing that we cannot know.= _Emerson._

=Knowledge is the material with which genius builds her fabrics.= _Bryant._

=Knowledge is the parent of love; wisdom,= 5 =love itself.= _Hare._

=Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment the treasurer, of a wise man.= _Wm. Penn._

=Knowledge is the treasure of the mind, but discretion is the key to it, without which it is useless. The practical part of wisdom is the best.= _Feltham._

=Knowledge is to one a goddess, to another only an excellent cow.= _Schiller._

=Knowledge, love, power constitute the complete life.= _Amiel._

=Knowledge may not be as a courtesan for= 10 =pleasure and vanity only; or as a bond-woman, to acquire and gain for her master's use; but as a spouse, for generation, fruit, and comfort.= _Bacon._

=Knowledge of my way is a good part of my journey.= _A. Warwick._

=Knowledge of our duties is the most useful part of philosophy.= _Whately._

=Knowledge of the world is dearly bought at the price of moral purity.= _E. Wigglesworth._

=Knowledge perverted is knowledge no longer.= _Bulwer Lytton._

=Knowledge produceth humility; from humility= 15 =proceedeth worthiness; from worthiness riches are acquired; from riches religion, and thence happiness.= _Hitopadesa._

=Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth.= _St. Paul._

=Knowledge shall vanish away.= _St. Paul._

=Knowledge that a thing is false is a truth.= _Schopenhauer._

=Knowledge that terminates in curiosity and speculation is inferior to that which is useful, and of all useful knowledge that is the most so which consists in a due care and just notion of ourselves.= _St. Bernard._

=Knowledge, the wing wherewith we fly to= 20 =heaven.= 2 _Hen. VI._, iv. 7.

=Knowledge to their eyes her ample page, / Rich with the spoils of time, did ne'er unroll; / Chill penury repress'd their noble rage, / And froze the genial current of the soul.= _Gray._

=Knowledge, when wisdom is too weak to guide her, / Is like a headstrong horse that throws the rider.= _Quarles._

=Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.= _Hor._

=Knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.= _Johnson._

=Knowledge without justice ought to be called= 25 =cunning rather than wisdom.= _Plato._

=Knowledge without practice is like a glass eye, all for show, and nothing for use.= _Swinnock._

=Known unto God are all His works from the beginning of the world.= _St. Paul._

=Komm jedem, wie er sei, mit edeln Sinn entgegen, / Vielleicht wird dann in ihm, was edel ist, sich regen=--Accost whoever you may meet with noble feeling; perhaps what is noble will begin to stir in him. _J. Trojan._

=Kraft erwart' ich vom Mann, des Gesetzes Würde behaupt' er; / Aber durch Anmuth allein herrschet und herrsche das Weib=--I look for power in the man; he affirms the dignity of the law; but the woman rules, and will continue to rule, through grace alone. _Schiller._

=Krankes Fleisch, kranker Geist=--Sickly in body, 30 sickly in mind. _Ger. Pr._

=Krieg bis aufs Messer=--War to the knife. _Ger._

=Krieg ist ewig zwischen List und Argwohn, / Nur zwischen Glauben und Vertraun ist Friede=--War is unending between cunning and mistrust; only between faith and trust is there peace. _Schiller._

[Greek: Kreisson toi sophiê kai megalês aretês]--Wisdom is better than even great valour. _Theognis._

[Greek: Kreitôn hê pronoia tês metameleias]--Thought beforehand is better than regret afterwards. _Dionysius of Hal._

[Greek: Ktêma es aei]--A possession for ever. _Thucydides._ 35

[Greek: Kudos]--Fame; glory. _Gr._

=Kühl bis an's Herz hinan=--Cool to the very heart. _Goethe._

[Greek: Kynos ommat' echôn]--Having dog's eyes. _Hom._

=Kunst ist die rechte Hand der Natur. Diese hat nur Geschöpfe, jene hat Menschen gemacht=--Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has made only creatures, the former has made men. _Schiller._

=Kurz ist der Lieb' Entzücken, doch ewig ist= 40 =die Pein=--Short is the rapture of love, but eternal is the pain. _S. Rossini._

=Kurz ist der Schmerz, und ewig ist die Freude!=--Short is the pain and eternal the joy! _Schiller._

=Kyrie eleeison=--Lord, have mercy upon us.

=Kythe= (appear) =in your ain colours, that folk may ken ye.= _Sc. Pr._

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