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I'll talk a word with this same learned Theban.
What is your study?
I'll talk a word with this same learned Theban.
What is your study?
You are in some brown study.
You are in some brown study.
Me therefore studious of laborious ease.
Me therefore studious of laborious ease.
There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.
There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.
The whole worl's in a state o' chassis.
The whole worl's in a state o' chassis.
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.
(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.
Exhausting thought,
And having wisdom with each studious year.
Exhausting thought,
And having wisdom with each studious year.