[Davy on Innocent Pursuits]
Anon
Genre: | Extract, Miscellaneous |
Publications extracted: | Humphry Davy |
Subjects: | Scientific Practitioners, Endeavour, Morality |
'The most important principle perhaps in life is to have a pursuit—a useful one if possible, and at all events an innocent one. The unripe fruit tree of knowledge is, I believe, always bitter or sour; and scepticism and discontent—sickness of the mind—are often the results of devouring it'. |
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