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(Berowne:) What is the end of study, let me know?
(King:) What, that to know which else we should read more
(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.
You are in some brown study.
You are in some brown study.
The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
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.
No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does read more
No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know.
It always seems impossible until its done.
It always seems impossible until its done.
He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how read more
He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.
The noblest exercise of the mind within doors, and most befitting a person of quality, is study.
The noblest exercise of the mind within doors, and most befitting a person of quality, is study.