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title: 'Alexander Proudfit on What to Study Most'
type: post
author: 'R. Andrew Myers'
date: 2024-09-25
url: https://confessional.org/blog/2024-alexander-proudfit-on-what-to-study-most
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# Alexander Proudfit on What to Study Most

“It was the solemn attestation of one\* who had attained nearly the summit of human greatness, ‘I have surveyed the most part of that learning which is common among men, but now I find no rest for my soul except in the holy scriptures.’ It was the exclamation of another\*\* eminent both in station, and for his talents, ‘I have lost a world of time the most precious thing in the world, of which had I one year more it should be spent in reading the psalms of David, and the epistles of Paul.’” — [**Alexander Proudfit**](/authors/alexander-proudfit), *Practical Godliness in Thirteen Discourses on the Duties of the Closet, and Family, and Sanctuary* (1813), p. 111

\* John Selden
\*\* Claudius Salmasius