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			 Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow read more 
	 Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment. 
		
 
	
			 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. 
		
 
	
			 So study evermore is overshot.
 While it doth study to have what it would,
  It doth forget read more 
	 So study evermore is overshot.
 While it doth study to have what it would,
  It doth forget to do the thing it should;
   And when it hath the thing it hunteth most,
    'Tis won as towns with fire; so won, so lost. 
		
 
	
			 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. 
		
 
	
			 Studious of ease, and fond of humble things.  
	 Studious of ease, and fond of humble things. 
		
 
	
			 The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.  
	 The more we study the more we discover our ignorance. 
		
 
	
			 Me therefore studious of laborious ease.  
	 Me therefore studious of laborious ease. 
		
 
	
			 Studious of elegance and ease.  
	 Studious of elegance and ease. 
		
 
	
			 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