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“Other things may be seized by might, or purchased with money, but knowledge is to be gained only by study, and study to be prosecuted only in retirement.”

May Might Knowledge Study Retirement

Book:The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous, to which are Now Added, Biographical Anecdotes of the Doctor, Selected from the Late Productions of Mrs. Piozzi, Mr. Boswell, ...

Source: The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous, to which are Now Added, Biographical Anecdotes of the Doctor, Selected from the Late Productions of Mrs. Piozzi, Mr. Boswell, ...

“Knowledge is praised and desired by multitudes whom her charms could never rouse from the couch of sloth; whom the faintest invitation of pleasure draws away from their studies; to whom any other method of wearing the day is more eligible than the use of books, and who are more easily engaged by any conversation than such as may rectify their notions or enlarge their comprehension.”

May Book Use Pleasure Knowledge Study Conversation Draws Method Notion Engaged Charm Multitudes Invitations Couches Comprehension Sloth Rectify

Book:A Grammar of the Italian Language: With a Copious Praxis of Moral Sentences. To which is Added an English Grammar for the Use of the Italians

Source: A Grammar of the Italian Language: With a Copious Praxis of Moral Sentences. To which is Added an English Grammar for the Use of the Italians

“This may sound insulting to some of my cult studies friends, but there's a lot of cult studies people who ignore, shall we say, the wider canvas - because they simply don't know about its existence or they don't know how it operates.”

People Knows May Sound Existence Know How Study Canvas Cult Insulting

Author:Peter York

“For if we merely take what obviously appears the line of least resistance, its obviousness will appeal to the opponent also; and this line may no longer be that of least resistance. In studying the physical aspect, we must never lose sight of the psychological, and only when both are combined is the strategy truly an indirect approach, calculated to dislocate the opponent's balance.”

Ifs May Loses Lines Study Military Balance Approach Aspect Sight Strategy Resistance Psychological Appeals Opponents Indirect Obviousness

Author:B. H. Liddell Hart

“You can get so caught up in learning all about reincarnation, you can get so caught up in learning about structures, fascinating though they may be, that you're not free; you're just studying a different textbook.”

May Different Study Structure Caught Fascinating Reincarnation Caught Up Textbooks

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Global warming ... may be a plaintiff lawyer's dream. And it's interesting, in a perverse way, to imagine how a jury in 2050 might react to some of the recent industry-backed studies minimizing the dangers of global warming. I suspect future jurors will not be amused.”

Way May Dream Might Interesting Study Imagine Danger Industry Lawyer Global Warming Suspects Jury Amused Minimizing Jurors

Author:David Ignatius

“But now I rejoice when, in my winter studio, I can spread out my summer studies and recall through them the beautiful season and places which gave them being. Here the painter feels how small things may suggest the greater - the drop of water, image the firmament.”

Feels May I Can Beautiful Water Study Greater Summer Seasons Winter Studios Spread Painter Rejoice Recalls Small Things Drop Of Water Firmament

Author:Christopher Pearse Cranch

“Agriculture is for living; mind culture is for life. Skills are for shaping material things so that they cater more for the comfort of man; studies are for shaping attitudes, feelings, desires, emotions and impulses of man, so that they may confer more peace, more joy and more fortitude on man.”

Men Mind May Feelings Joy Desire Culture Emotion Attitude Study Materials Comfort Skills Impulse Agriculture Fortitude Material Things Life Skills

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“A work of art rests its merits in traditional qualities. It may constitute a remarkable feat in craftsmanship; it may be a searching study of psychological states; it may be a nostalgic glance backward; it may be any one of an infinite number of concepts, none of which may have any possible bearing upon its degree of newness.”

May Art States Numbers Quality Study Degrees Concepts Tradition Infinite Traditional Psychological Merit Remarkable Works Of Art Glances Nostalgic Feats Newness Craftsmanship

Book:The Shape of Content

Source: The Shape of Content

“Though colour may appear at first a part of painting merely mechanical, yet it still has its rules, and those grounded upon that presiding principle which regulates both the great and the little in the study of a painter.”

Firsts May Littles Stills Principles Study Painting Painter Colour Grounded

Book:Discourses on Painting and the Fine Arts, delivered at the Royal Academy. With a portrait

Source: Discourses on Painting and the Fine Arts, delivered at the Royal Academy. With a portrait

“A well-judging man will open his trunk-line of study in such a direction that, while habitually adhering to it, he may enjoy a ready access to such other fields of knowledge as are most nearly related to it.”

Men Wells May Enjoy Lines Study Fields Ready Judging Research Access Related Trunks

Author:James Fitzjames Stephen

“Do not say, 'When I have leisure, I will study,' because you may never have leisure.”

May Study Leisure Procrastination

Author:Hillel the Elder

“We do not realize how deeply our starting assumptions affect the way we go about looking for and interpreting the data we collect. We should recognize that nonhuman organisms need not meet every new definition of human language, tool use, mind, or consciousness in order to have versions of their own that are worthy of serious study. We have set ourselves too much apart, grasping for definitions that will distinguish man from all other life on the planet. We must rejoin the great stream of life from whence we arose and strive to see within it the seeds of all we are and all we may become.”

Source: Kanzi: The Ape at the Brink of the Human Mind

“Every attempt to reflect upon the Atonement, to study it, to embrace it, to express appreciation for it, however small or feeble it may be, will kindle the fires of faith and work its miracle towards a more Christlike life. It is an inescapable consequence of so doing. We become like those things we habitually love and admire. And thus, as we study Christ’s life and live his teachings, we become more like him.”

May Christ Study Fire Teaching Consequence Miracle Embrace Appreciation Admire Atonement Kindles Express Appreciation

Author:Tad R. Callister

“Some may study side by side, and yet be asunder when they come to the logic of things.”

May Sides Study Logic

Book:Chinese Literature

Source: Chinese Literature

“It is one thing to read the Scriptures and affirm their truth. But until you are in the trenches of trial, until you are faced with life circumstances that test your faith, until you are pressed to the absolute limit of your physical and emotional capacity, until you face the unrelenting stress of ongoing trauma, you never really know how you'll respond to what you may have embraced so easily during a comfortable Bible study.”

Knows May Faces Know How Study One Thing Emotional Circumstances Limits Comfortable Capacity Tests Stress Absolutes Trauma Scripture Trials Ongoing Bible Study Trenches Unrelenting

Author:Kevin Malarkey

“I like to be aware of a book as a piece of writing, and aware of its structure as a product of mind, and yet I want to be able to see the represented world through it. I admire artists who succeed in dividing my attention more or less evenly between the world of their books and the art of their books . . . so that a reader may study the work with pleasure as well as the world that it describes.”

World Want Writing Mind Wells May Art Book Able Artist Pleasure Attention Study Pieces Products Reader Succeed Structure Admire Dividing

Author:Annie Dillard