STUDY

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1. Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep, moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.—BACON, Of Studies
   

2. Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.—BACON, Of Studies
   

3. When night hath set her silver lamp on high,
   Then is the time for study.—PHILIP J. BAILEY, Festus
   

4. Of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.—Bible: Ecclesiastes 12:12
   

5. Exhausting thought,
   And hiving wisdom with each studious year.—BYRON, Childe Harold
   

6. Studious of elegance and ease.—JOHN GAY, Fables
   

7. As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so changes of studies a dull brain.—LONGFELLOW, Drift-Wood
   

8. You are in some brown study.—JOHN LYLY, Euphues
   

9. Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies.—MILTON, The Reason of Church Government
   

10. I'll talk a word with this same learned Theban. What is your study?—SHAKESPEARE, King Lear
    

11. What is the end of study? Let me know?
    Why, that to know, which else we should not know.
    Things hid and barr'd, you mean, from common sense?
    Ay, that is study's god-like recompense.—SHAKESPEARE, Love's Labour's Lost
    

12. 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.—SHAKESPEARE, Love's Labour's Lost
    

13. 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 bath the thing it hunteth most,
    'Tis won as towns with fire, so won, so lost.—SHAKESPEARE, Love's Labour's Lost
    

14. I am slow of study.—SHAKESPEARE, A Midsummer-Night's Dream
    

15. 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.—SIDNEY SMITH