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sense, to make it feel its destination, and look up with humble awe, but with inspiring hope, to the Great Being on whom that destination depends; to make it feel that the source of happiness is in itself, and not in the objects that surround it.W. Danby.

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Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. The chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business, for expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies, is sloth; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the humour of a scholar: they perfect nature and are perfected by experience; for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them; for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.-Bacon.

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Let the course of thy studies be as a journey ought to be. First, - Propose to thyself whither it is thou wouldest go. Secondly, -Which is the nearest and best way thither. And thirdly, - Think of setting about it with unwearied diligence. He that is discouraged with difficulties, or mistakes his way, or goes far about, or loiters, is not likely to arrive very soon: and he that rambles about from one town to another, without any determinate design, is a vagabond and no traveller. --Dr T. Fuller.

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When thou hast resolved what to study, advise what are the best books on that subject, and procure them: as for indifferent ones, I would not have thee throw away any time or pains on them if thou canst get better. A few books well chosen, and well made use of, will be more profitable to thee than a great confused Alexandrian Library. --Dr T. Fuller. 108.

The best way of acquiring most branches of knowledge, is to study them, if possible, for some specific object or occasion. This will supply the curiosity with a powerful stimulus, and communicate to the search a practical character essentially beneficial. - W. B. Člulow,

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Amidst the multiplicity of books and sciences that invite our curiosity, the most compendious and effectual method is, to study any particular topic in works where it is systematically and fully treated. There will afterward be little occasion to consult other performances on the subject, as a slight inspection of those parts only which profess to contain any new discoveries, will be amply sufficient. - W. B. Clulow.

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Lay down such rules to thyself, of observing stated hours for study and business, as no man shall be able to persuade thee to recede from. For when thy resolutions are once known, as no man of ingenuity will disturb thee, so thou wilt find this method will become not only practicable, but of singular benefit in abundance of things. - Dr T. Fuller.

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Marshall thy notions into a handsome method. One will carry twice more weight trussed and packed up in bundles, than when it lies untoward flapping and hanging about his shoulders. Things orderly

fardled up under heads are most portable. -Dr T. Fuller.

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Judge of thy improvement, not by what thou speakest, or by what thou writest; but by the firmness of thy mind, and the government of thy passions and affections. It would be well worth thy time, thus to consider thyself, and what progress thou hast made. --Dr T. Fuller.

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Be industrious; and so difficulties will give place. Use makes practice easy; and practice begets custom, and a habit of things, to facilitate what thou couldst not conceive attainable at the first undertaking.-Dr T. Fuller.

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He that loseth his morning studies, gives an ill precedent to the afternoon, and makes such a hole in the beginning of the day, that all the winged hours will be in danger of flying out thereat.Dr T. Fuller.

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Think how much work is behind; how slow thou hast wrought in thy time that is past; and what a reckoning thou shouldst make, if thy master should call thee this day to thine account.-Dr T. Fuller.

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There is no man so miserable as he that is at a loss how to spend his time. He is restless in his thoughts, unsteady in his counsels, dissatisfied with the present, solicitous for the future. - Dr T. Fuller.

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The advice is unsound, as well as impracticable, which recommends that our time be always occupied with some industrious, or at least specific pursuit. After laborious mental efforts, the attention should be directed to the lightest subjects possible; and as a general rule, it is best to leave the intellect a good deal free to its own operations, and to the entrance of casual reflections. - W. B. Clulow.

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Be always employed: thou wilt never be better pleased, than when thou hast something to do. For business, by its motion, brings heat and life to the spirits; but idleness corrupts them like standing water.-Dr T. Fuller.

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They are idle who do not know the value of time. Kalee Krishun.

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A man that is young in years, may be old in hours, if he have lost no time; but that happeneth rarely.-Bacon.

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Make use of time if thou valuest eternity. Yesterday cannot be recalled: to-morrow cannot be assured: to-day only is thine; which if thou procrastinatest, thou losest: which loss is lost for ever. -Dr T. Fuller.

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Attempt only such things as thou mayest reasonably judge are within thy power: giving over an enterprize is discreditable; for it implieth either folly in the assaying, or levity in the prosecuting.Dr T. Fuller.

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It is natural, indeed, for common minds to look to those things which are obvious and superficial. It is natural also to avoid labour, and to seek for compendious methods. We may, with very little application, acquire the opinions of those who have gone before us; and if our pursuits are mean, they may serve our purpose. But no high point of excellence was ever attained, but by a laborious exercise

of the mind. I do not say, that abridgments, systems, and common places, with the other assistances, which modern times have so abundantly furnished, may not have their use. At the same time, it can scarcely be denied, that they have contributed very much to languid and inefficient studies. --Dr Markham.

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That time and labour are worse than useless, that have been occupied in laying up treasures of false knowledge, which it will one day be necessary to unlearn, and in storing up mistaken ideas which we must hereafter remember to forget. Timotheus, an ancient teacher of rhetoric, always demanded a double fee from those pupils who had been instructed by others; for in this case, he had not only to plant in, but also to root out.-Lacon.

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It is almost as difficult to make a man unlearn his errors, as his knowledge. Mal-information is more hopeless than non-information; for error is always more busy than ignorance. Ignorance is a blank sheet on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one on which we must first erase. Ignorance is contented to stand still with her back to the truth; but error is more presumptuous, and proceeds in the same direction. Ignorance has no light, but error follows a false one. The consequence is, that error, when she retraces her footsteps has further to go, before she can arrive at the truth, than ignorance.-Lacon.

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No kind of study or inquiry into fact, is a proper object of contempt. It is not unfrequent to possess a passion for particular species of knowledge, but the understanding is scarcely in a proper tone unless information or truth, of every description, be seized with avidity. What Cicero describes as essential

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