by Coleridge · Cluster: Education · Self-Made Man · Wheel
Abstract
Stanza from Fulke Greville used by Coleridge as a motto on learning and faith, arguing that true understanding lives only where knowledge breeds obedience and works.
Connections
Themes & Concepts: Education, Faith, Truth, Justice Right and Wrong Forms & Genres: Epigram
Testo integrale / Full text
STANZA CLX
For onely that man understands indeed,
And well remembers, which he well can doe,
The Laws live, onely where the Law doth breed
Obedience to the workes it bindes us to:
And as the life of Wisedome hath exprest,
If this ye know, then doe it, and be blest.
LORD BROOKE.
Motto to Notes on a Barrister’s Hints on Evangelical Preaching, 1810,
in Lit. Rem., 1839, iv. 320.
ll. 2, 3
Who well remembers what he well can do;
The Faith lives only where the faith doth breed.