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O Granta! sweet Granta! where studious of ease, I slumbered seven years, and then lost by degrees. - Christopher Anstey, New Bath Guide--Epilogue Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; morals, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. - Francis Bacon, Essays--Of Studies When night hath set her silver lamp high, Then is the time for study. - Philip James Bailey, Festus (sc. A Village Feast) Exhausting thought, And having wisdom with each studious year. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Childe Harold (canto III, st. 107) These (literary) studies are the food of youth, and consolation of age; they adorn prosperity, and are the comfort and refuge of adversity; they are pleasant at home, and are no incumbrance abroad; they accompany us at night, in our travels, and in our rural retreats. [Lat., Haec studia adolecentiam alunt, senectutem oblectant, secundas res ornant, adversis solatium et perfugium praebent, delectant domi, non impediunt foris, pernoctant nobiscum, peregrinantur, rusticantur. - Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) (often called "Tully" for short), Oratio Pro Licinio Archia (VII) Study without reflection is a waste of time; reflection without study is dangerous. - Confucius Me therefore studious of laborious ease. - William Cowper, Task (bk. III, The Garden) Amusement to an observing mind is study. - Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield If one studies too zealously, one easily loses his pants. - Albert Einstein Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs. - Albert Einstein Studious of elegance and ease. - John Gay, Fables (pt. II, no. 8) For he as studious--of his ease. - John Gay, Poems on Several Occasions (II, 49), (ed. 1752) Not meddling with Divinity, Metaphysicks, Moralls, Politicks, Grammar, Rhetorick, or Logick. - Robert Hooke, about the Royal Society Study requires solitude, and solitude is a state dangerous to those who are too much accustomed to sink into themselves. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature") As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so changes of studies a dull brain. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Drift-Wood--Table-Talk You are in some brown study. - John Lyly (Lylie or Lyllie), Euphues (p. 80), (Arber's reprint)(1579) Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies. - John Milton, Reason of Church Government--Introduction (bk. II) The whole worl's in a state o' chassis. - Sean O'Casey, Juno and the Paycock Studious of ease, and fond of humble things. - Ambrose Philips, Epistles from Holland, to a Friend in England (l. 21) I'll talk a word with this same learned Theban. What is your study? - William Shakespeare, King Lear (King Lear at II, vi) (Berowne:) What is the end of study, let me know? (King:) What, that to know which else we should not know. (Berowne:) Things hid and barred, you mean, from common sense? (King:) Ay, that is study's godlike recompense. - William Shakespeare, Love's Labor's Lost (Berowne & King Ferdinand at I, i) So study evermore is overshot. While it doth study to have what it would, It doth forget to do the thing it should; And when it hath the thing it hunteth most, 'Tis won as towns with fire; so won, so lost. - William Shakespeare, Love's Labor's Lost (Berowne at I, i) Study is like the heaven's glorious sun, That will not be deep-searched with saucy looks: Small have continual plodders ever won, Save base authority from others' books. - William Shakespeare, Love's Labor's Lost (Berowne at I, i) One of the best methods of rendering study agreeable is to live with able men, and to suffer all those pangs of inferiority which the want of knowledge always inflicts. - Sydney Smith, Second Lecture on the Conduct of the Understanding Priding himself in the pursuits of an inglorious ease. [Lat., Studiis florentem ignobilis oti.] - Virgil or Vergil (Publius Virgilius Maro Vergil), Georgics (4, 564) Displaying page 1 of 2 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2
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