Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings.
Human beings are infinitely worth studying, especially the peculiarities that often go along with outstanding gifts.
It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.
Through art and science in their broadest senses it is possible to make a permanent contribution towards the improvement and enrichment of human life and it is these pursuits that we students are engaged in.
The effect of studying masterpieces is to make me admire and do otherwise.
It has always seemed to me that a love of natural objects, and the depth, as well as exuberance and refinement of mind, produced by an intelligent delight in scenery, are elements of the first importance in the education of the young.
What, after all, is the object of education? To train the body in health, vigor and grace, so that it may express the emotions in beauty and the mind with accuracy and strength.
A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time most completely, and which is less benefited than most others by any acquaintance with science.
Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.
True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.
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