Study

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A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar
Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs
If one studies too zealously, one easily loses his pants
Study requires solitude, and solitude is a state dangerous to those who are too much accustomed to sink into themselves
Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability
Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; morals, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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