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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.

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The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.

The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.

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He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself read more

He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.

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When night hath set her silver lamp high,
Then is the time for study.

When night hath set her silver lamp high,
Then is the time for study.

by Philip James Bailey Found in: Study Quotes,
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So study evermore is overshot.
While it doth study to have what it would,
It doth forget read more

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.

by William Shakespeare Found in: Study Quotes,
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For he as studious--of his ease.

For he as studious--of his ease.

by John Gay Found in: Study Quotes,
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One of the best methods of rendering study agreeable is to live
with able men, and to suffer all read more

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.

by Sydney Smith Found in: Study Quotes,
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Studious of elegance and ease.

Studious of elegance and ease.

by John Gay Found in: Study Quotes,
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There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

by Cicero Found in: Study Quotes,
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As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so changes of
studies a dull brain.

As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so changes of
studies a dull brain.

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