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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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.
For he as studious--of his ease.
For he as studious--of his ease.
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.
You are in some brown study.
You are in some brown study.
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.
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.]
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.
O Granta! sweet Granta! where studious of ease,
I slumbered seven years, and then lost by degrees.
O Granta! sweet Granta! where studious of ease,
I slumbered seven years, and then lost by degrees.
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.
