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O Granta! sweet Granta! where studious of ease, I slumbered seven years, and then lost by degrees.

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; morals, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

When night hath set her silver lamp high, Then is the time for study.

Exhausting thought, And having wisdom with each studious year.

These 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.

Me therefore studious of laborious ease.

Studious of elegance and ease.

For he as studious--of his ease.

As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so changes of studies a dull brain.

You are in some brown study.

Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies.

The whole worl's in a state o' chassis.

Studious of ease, and fond of humble things.

I'll talk a word with this same learned Theban. What is your study?

What is the end of study, let me know? What, that to know which else we should not know. Things hid and barred, you mean, from common sense? Ay, that is study's godlike recompense.

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.

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.

One of the best methods of rendering study agreeable is to live with able men, and to suffer all those pangs of inferiority which the want of knowledge always inflicts.

Priding himself in the pursuits of an inglorious ease.

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.