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  • The use of knowledge in our sex (beside the amusement of solitude) is to moderate the passions and learn to be contented with a small expense, which are the certain effects of a studious life and, it may be, preferable even to that fame which men have engrossed to themselves and will not suffer us to share.

    Sex   Passion   Knowledge  
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1825). “The Works of the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Including Her Correspondence, Poems, and Essays, Form Her Genuine Papers”, p.375
  • The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.

    Men   Mind   Earth  
    William Cowper, Thomas Shuttleworth Grimshawe, John William Cunningham (1835). “The Life and Works of William Cowper: Now First Completed by the Introduction of His "Private Correspondence."”, p.240
  • You have heaven adorned, earth beautified, the sea populated with its own creatures, the air filled with birds which scour it in every direction. Studious listener, think of all these creations which God has drawn out of nothing; . . . recognize everywhere the wisdom of God; never cease to wonder, and, through every creature, to glorify the Creator.

    Animal   Thinking   Air  
  • Exhausting thought, And hiving wisdom with each studious year.

    Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.118, Cambridge University Press
  • Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.

    Time   Learning   Past  
  • On graduating from school, a studious young man who would withstand the tedium and monotony of his duties has no choice but to lose himself in some branch of science or literature completely irrelevant to his assignment.

    School   Science   Men  
    "oulomb and the Evolution of Physics and Engineering in Eighteenth-century France" by C. Stewart Gillmor, Princeton University Press, (pp. 255-261), 1971.
  • And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light.

    'Il Penseroso' (1645) l. 157
  • It is commonly supposed that the uniformity of a studious life affords no matter for narration: but the truth is, that of the most studious life a great part passes without study. An author partakes of the common condition of humanity; he is born and married like another man; he has hopes and fears, expectations and disappointments, griefs and joys, and friends and enemies, like a courtier or a statesman; nor can I conceive why his affairs shuld not excite curiosity as much as the whisper of a drawing-room, or the factions of a camp.

    Samuel Johnson (1836). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.: D., with an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.453
  • Who doesn't feel studious when he doesn't have a girl with a Riviera suntan?

    Girl   Feels   Studious  
    Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.42, Penguin
  • Books are pleasant, but if by being over-studious we impair our health and spoil our good humour, two of the best things we have, let us give it over. I, for my part, am one of those who think no fruit derived from them can recompense so great a loss.

    Book   Health   Loss  
  • Winter is the time for study, you know, and the colder it is the more studious we are.

    Winter   Students   Study  
    Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1705, Delphi Classics
  • After high school, I was going to move out to L.A. and try to pursue my dreams of acting. My parents said, "Thats fine. We support you, but you have to go to school", which was fine because I'm a studious person anyway, I enjoy it.

    Dream   Moving   School  
    "Exclusive Interview: MIOBI's Josie Loren". Interview with Neha Gandhi, www.seventeen.com. May 26, 2011.
  • Learn diligence before speedy execution.

    Trevor J. Fairbrother, Chiyo Ishikawa, Leonardo (Da Vinci.) (1997). “Leonardo Lives: The Codex Leicester and Leonardo Da Vinci's Legacy of Art and Science : [catalog of an Exhibition Held at the Seattle Art Museum, October 23, 1997, to January 4, 1998]”, University of Washington Press
  • You know, people tend to get stereotyped for about forty percent of their behavior, so if you're completely crazy forty percent of the time you'll get stereotyped as crazy, even if you're totally boring thirty percent of the time and just studious the other thirty percent of the time.

    Crazy   People   Boring  
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  • Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

    Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.148, University of Georgia Press
  • The studious silence of the library ... Thought is the thought of thought. Tranquil brightness.

    "Ulysses".
  • Studious to please, yet not ashamed to fail.

    'Irene' (1749) prologue
  • Some men of a secluded and studious life, have sent forth from their closet or their cloister, rays of intellectual light that have agitated courts, and revolutionized kingdoms; like the moon, that far removed from the ocean, and shining upon it with a serene and sober light, is the chief cause of all those ebbings and flowings which incessantly disturb that world of waters.

    Ocean   Moon   Men  
  • 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.

    Death   Sex   Two  
    Letter to Olivia Shakespear, Oct. 1927
  • It's not our disadvantages or shortcomings that are ridiculous, but rather the studious way we try to hide them, and our desire to act as if they did not exist.

    Desire   Trying   Way  
  • Colleges seem to want candidates that are so well-rounded they'd have to be two different people use together with mutually exclusive characteristics! They have to be gung ho athletes and sensitive artists, studious nerds and gregarious social networkers, future rulers of the universe and selfless altruists.

  • Luxurious lobster-nights, farewell, For sober, studious days!

    Farewell   Night   Luxury  
    Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1866). “Poetical Works”, p.203
  • Too many men slip early out of the habit of studious reading, and yet that is essential.

    Sir William Osler, Charles G. Roland (1969). “Wm. Osler: the continuing education”
  • But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloisters pale, And love the high embowed roof, With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight; Casting a dim religious light.

    Religious   Feet   Light  
    John Milton (2012). “Paradise Regained, Samson Agonistes, and the Complete Shorter Poems”, p.51, Modern Library
  • It is one of the vexatious mortifications of a studious man to have his thoughts disordered by a tedious visit.

  • I was not a studious kid, and I struggled to find things that would command my attention and engage my ideas and energies.

    Kids   Ideas   Energy  
  • Do we honestly believe that hopeless kids growing up under the harsh new rules will turn out to be chaste, studious, responsible adults? On the contrary, by limiting welfare, job training, education and nutritious food, won't we plant the seeds for another bumper crop of out-of-wedlock moms, deadbeat dads and worse?

    Mom   Jobs   Dad  
  • Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty. [Lat., Nimis in veritate, et similitudinis quam pulchritudinis amantior.]

  • The one quality that can be developed by studious reflection and practice is the leadership of men.

  • Brubeck, for instance, is not careless. He's a studied guy. And even if his picture ends up on the back cover of Life, he's still a studious guy.

    Guy   Jazz   Ends  
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