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It always seems impossible until its done.

It always seems impossible until its done.

by Nelson Mandela 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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Before we can study the central issues of life today, we must destroy the prejudices and fallacies born of previous read more

Before we can study the central issues of life today, we must destroy the prejudices and fallacies born of previous centuries

by Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Found in: Study Quotes,
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I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least
interest to a serious and read more

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.

by William Butler Yeats Found in: Study Quotes,
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I know what I should love to do--to build a study; to write, and to think of nothing else. I read more

I know what I should love to do--to build a study; to write, and to think of nothing else. I want to bury myself in a den of books. I want to saturate myself with the elements of which they are made, and breathe their atmosphere until I am of it. Not a bookworm, being which is to give off no utterances; but a man in the world of writing--one with a pen that shall stop men to listen to it, whether they wish to or not.

by Lew Wallace Found in: Study Quotes,
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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.

by Oliver Wendell Holmes Found in: Study Quotes,
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These (literary) studies are the food of youth, and consolation
of age; they adorn prosperity, and are the comfort read more

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.

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I studied the lives of great men and famous women; and I found that the men and women who got read more

I studied the lives of great men and famous women; and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work.

by Harry S. Truman Found in: Study Quotes,
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Me therefore studious of laborious ease.

Me therefore studious of laborious ease.

by William Cowper Found in: Study Quotes,
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