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O Granta! sweet Granta! where studious of ease,
I slumbered seven years, and then lost by degrees.
Author: Christopher Anstey
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.
Author: Francis Bacon
Source: Essays--Of Studies
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When night hath set her silver lamp high,
Then is the time for study.
Author: Philip James Bailey
Source: Festus (sc. A Village Feast)
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Exhausting thought,
And having wisdom with each studious year.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
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.
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: Oratio Pro Licinio Archia (VII)
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Me therefore studious of laborious ease.
Author: William Cowper
Source: Task (bk. III, The Garden)
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Studious of elegance and ease.
Author: John Gay
Source: Fables (pt. II, no. 8)
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For he as studious--of his ease.
Author: John Gay
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.
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Source: Drift-Wood--Table-Talk
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You are in some brown study.
Author: John Lyly (Lylie or Lyllie)
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.
Author: John Milton
Source: Reason of Church Government--Introduction (bk. II)
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The whole worl's in a state o' chassis.
Author: Sean O'Casey
Source: Juno and the Paycock
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Studious of ease, and fond of humble things.
Author: Ambrose Philips
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?
Author: William Shakespeare
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.
Author: William Shakespeare
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.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Love's Labor's Lost (Berowne at I, i)
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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.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Love's Labor's Lost (Berowne at I, i)
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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.
Author: Sydney Smith
Source: Second Lecture on the Conduct of the Understanding
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Priding himself in the pursuits of an inglorious ease.
[Lat., Studiis florentem ignobilis oti.]
Author: Virgil or Vergil (Publius Virgilius Maro Vergil)
Source: Georgics (4, 564)
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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.
Author: William Butler Yeats
Source: The Letters of W .B. Yeats
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There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.
Author: Cicero
Source: None
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Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.
Author: Joseph Addison
Source: None
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The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
Source: None
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No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know.
Author: Woodrow Wilson
Source: None
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The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
Source: None
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The noblest exercise of the mind within doors, and most befitting a person of quality, is study.
Author: William Ramsay
Source: None
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The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Source: None
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