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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. 
 Study is like the heaven's glorious sun,
 That will not be deep-searched with saucy looks:
  Small have read more 
 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. 
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.
 Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; 
natural philosophy, deep; morals, grave; logic and rhetoric, able 
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 Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; 
natural philosophy, deep; morals, grave; logic and rhetoric, able 
to contend. 
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.
 Priding himself in the pursuits of an inglorious ease.
 [Lat., Studiis florentem ignobilis oti.]  
 Priding himself in the pursuits of an inglorious ease.
 [Lat., Studiis florentem ignobilis oti.] 
Some people study all their life, and at their death they have learned everything except to think.
Some people study all their life, and at their death they have learned everything except to think.
 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? 
 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.