Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.

The saying urges a disciplined, incremental view of self-cultivation: abilities grow through faithful use, and understanding deepens through acting on what one already grasps. It links moral seriousness (“faithfully”) with intellectual progress (“higher knowledge”), implying that knowledge is not merely accumulated but earned through practice and integrity. The structure echoes a familiar ethical-religious idea—stewardship of one’s “gifts” leading to greater capacity—recast as a general principle of education and character. Read this way, the line functions as a maxim against passivity: talent and insight atrophy when hoarded, but expand when exercised in concrete work and lived commitment.