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“It always seems impossible until its done.”
Nelson Mandela Quotes |
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“Philosophy is a study that lets us be unhappy more intelligently”
Confucius Quotes |
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“I know what I should love to do--to build a study; to write, and to think of nothing else. I want to bury myself in a den of books. I want to saturate myself with the elements of which they are made, and breathe their atmosphere until I am of it. Not a bookworm, being which is to give off no utterances; but a man in the world of writing--one with a pen that shall stop men to listen to it, whether they wish to or not.”
Lew Wallace Quotes |
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“He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.”
Mary Wilson Little Quotes |
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“Before we can study the central issues of life today, we must destroy the prejudices and fallacies born of previous centuries”
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Quotes |
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“He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.”
Charles Caleb Colton Quotes |
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“I studied the lives of great men and famous women; and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work.”
Harry S Truman Quotes |
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“Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life.”
Henry L. Doherty Quotes |
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“If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.”
Galileo Galilei Quotes |
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“O Granta! sweet Granta! where studious of ease,
I slumbered seven years, and then lost by degrees.”
Christopher Anstey Quotes Source: New Bath Guide--Epilogue
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“Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile;
natural philosophy, deep; morals, grave; logic and rhetoric, able
to contend.”
Francis Bacon Quotes Source: Essays--Of Studies
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“When night hath set her silver lamp high,
Then is the time for study.”
Philip James Bailey Quotes Source: Festus (sc. A Village Feast)
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“Exhausting thought,
And having wisdom with each studious year.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes Source: Childe Harold (canto III, st. 107)
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“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) Quotes Source: Oratio Pro Licinio Archia (VII)
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“Me therefore studious of laborious ease.”
William Cowper Quotes Source: Task (bk. III, The Garden)
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“Studious of elegance and ease.”
John Gay Quotes Source: Fables (pt. II, no. 8)
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“For he as studious--of his ease.”
John Gay Quotes Source: Poems on Several Occasions (II, 49), (ed. 1752)
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“As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so changes of
studies a dull brain.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes Source: Drift-Wood--Table-Talk
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“You are in some brown study.”
John Lyly (Lylie or Lyllie) Quotes Source: Euphues (p. 80), (Arber's reprint)(1579)
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“Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still
air of delightful studies.”
John Milton Quotes Source: Reason of Church Government--Introduction (bk. II)
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“The whole worl's in a state o' chassis.”
Sean O'Casey Quotes Source: Juno and the Paycock
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“Studious of ease, and fond of humble things.”
Ambrose Philips Quotes Source: Epistles from Holland, to a Friend in England (l. 21)
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“I'll talk a word with this same learned Theban.
What is your study?”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: King Lear (King Lear at II. vi)
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“(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 Quotes Source: Love's Labor's Lost (Berowne & King Ferdinand at I, i)
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“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 Quotes Source: Love's Labor's Lost (Berowne at I, i)
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