Histories make men wise poets witty the mathematics subtile natural philosophy deep morals grave logic and rhetoric able to contend.
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Sir Francis Bacon
There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.
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Cicero
The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars nor its great scholars great men.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn so change of studies a dull brain.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
You are in some brown study.
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John Lyly
More Quotes By John Lyly
In misery it is great comfort to have a companion.
The bee that hath honey in her mouth hath a sting in her tail.
There can no great smoke arise but there must be some fire.
The empty vessel giveth a greater sound than the full barrel.
It is a blind goose that cometh to the fox's sermon.
