Rest from your inordinate desire of knowledge,

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    for therein is found much distraction and deceit.

Those who have knowledge
    desire to appear learnèd,

    and to be called wise.

Many things there are to know
    which profiteth little or nothing
    to the soul.

And foolish beyond measure is he
    who attendeth upon other things

    rather than those which serve to his soul's health.

And many words satisfy not the soul.        Mr. Kempis