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 386 IGNORANCE IMAGINATION

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = It is better to be unborn than untaught: for ignorance is the root of misfortune. Plato. Etiam illud quod scies nesciveris; Ne videris quod videris. Know not what you know, and see not what you see. Plautus—Miles Cfloriosus. II. 6. 89. g From ignorance our comfort flows, The only wretched are the wise. Prior—To the Hon. Chas. Montague. (1692) | seealso = (See also {{sc|Gray) llli mors gravis incubat qui notus nimis omnibus ignotus moritur sibi. Death presses heavily on that man, who, being but too well known to others, dies in ignorance of himself. Seneca—Thyestes. CCCCI. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 386 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = O thou monster, Ignorance, how deformed dost thou look! Love's Labour's Lost. Act rV. Sc. 2. L. 21. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Madam, thou errest: I say, there is no darkness, but ignorance; in which thou art more puzzled, than the Egyptians in their fog. Twelfth Night. ActrV. Sc. 2. L. 44. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 386 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = The more we study, we the more discover our ignorance. Shelley—Scenes from the Magico Prodigioso of Calderon. Sc. 1. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 386 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Omne ignotum pro magnifico est. Everything unknown is magnified. Tacitus—Agrkola. XXX. Quoting Galgacus, the British leader, to his subjects before the battle of the Grampian Hills. Ritter says the sentence may be a "marginal gloss and brackets it. Anticipated by Thucydides—Speech of Nicias. VI. 11. 4. Delivers brawling judgments, unashamed, On all things all day long. | author = Tennyson | work =  IdyUsoftheKing. Vivien. L. 515.  | author =  | work =  | place =  | note =  | topic =  | page = }}
 * * * Where blind and naked Ignorance

{{Hoyt quote | num = 15 | text = Homine imperito nunquam quidquid injustius, Qui nisi quod ipse facit nihil rectum putat. Nothing can be more unjust than the ignorant man, who thinks that nothing is well done by himself. Terencei—Adelphi. I. 2. 18. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 386 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Ita me dii ament, ast ubi sim nescio. As God loves me, I know not where I am. Terence—Heauton timoroumenos. II. 3. 67. Namque inscitia est, Adversum stimulum calces. It is consummate ignorance to kick against the pricks. Terence:—Phormio. I. 2. 27. IMAGINATION | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 15 | text = Imagination is the air of mind. Bailey—Festus. Sc. Another and a Better World. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 386 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Build castles in the air. | author = Burton | work = Anatomy of Melancholy. | place = Pt. I. Sec. II. Memb. 1. Subsect. 3. Also in Romaunt of the Rose. Come nous dicimus in nubibus. (As we said in the clouds.) John Rastell—Les Termes delaLey. (1527) in a wrong Boxe and building castels in the ayre or catching Hares with Tabers. Letter by F. A. to L. B. 1575-76. Repr. in Miscell. Antiq. Anglic. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Gascoigne, Herbert, Storer, Vn> lars, Watson}}) | topic = | page = }}
 * * * his master was in a manner always

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Thou hast the keys of Paradise, O just, subtle, and mighty opium! De Quincey—Confessions of an Opium Eater. Pt. II. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 386 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = And castels buylt above in lofty skies, Which never yet had good foundation. Gascoigne—Steel Glass. Arber's reprint. P. 55. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Burton}}) | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Es ist nichts furchterlicher als Einbildungskraft ohne Geschmack. There is nothing more fearful than imagination without taste. Goethe—Spruche in Prosa. III. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 386 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Build castles in Spain. | author = Herbert | work = Jacula Prudentum. Lore feras chastiaus en Espaigne. Guillaume de Ixjrris—Roman de la Rose. 2452. Et fais chasteaulx en Espaigne et en France. Charles d'Orleans—Rondeau. Etlesonger fait chasteaux en Asie. Pierre Grangoire—Menus Propos. Tout fin seullet les chasteaux d'Albanye. Le Verger d'Honneur. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Burton}})