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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

2183 Robert Burton 1577-1640 John Bartlett

 
NUMBER:2183
AUTHOR:Robert Burton (1577–1640)
QUOTATION:For “ignorance is the mother of devotion,” as all the world knows. 1
ATTRIBUTION:Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 4, Memb. 1, Subsect. 2.
 
Note 1.
Ignorance is the mother of devotion.—Jeremy Taylor: To a Person newly Converted (1657).

Your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.—John Dryden: The Maiden Queen, act i. sc. 2. [back]