John WesleyBeware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
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Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge. The last line means that love deserves more attention than the knowledge. People who are overly attached to books will never have time for love. They will always be obsessed with what they are reading.
Their minds are so dulled by the hard work of reading that they have no room for anything else. They are so busy with books that they don’t have time to discover anything else about the world. And, if they do happen to discover something new, they are so busy trying to memorize or interpret it that they neglect the original or its purpose.
These people are bound to fail, even if their words are brilliant or they have all the right answers.
Source: Letters Of John Wesley
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