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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.
Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you read more
Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life.
For he as studious--of his ease.
For he as studious--of his ease.
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.
Me therefore studious of laborious ease.
Me therefore studious of laborious ease.
The whole worl's in a state o' chassis.
The whole worl's in a state o' chassis.
Studious of ease, and fond of humble things.
Studious of ease, and fond of humble things.
You are in some brown study.
You are in some brown study.