I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least
interest to a serious and studious mood--sex and the dead.
William Butler Yeats
Quotes , Source: The Letters of W .B. Yeats
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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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The noblest exercise of the mind within doors, and most befitting a person of quality, is study.
William Ramsay
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Philosophy is a study that lets us be unhappy more intelligently
Confucius
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
Galileo Galilei
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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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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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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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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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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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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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