Studies serve for delight, forornament(装饰,修饰), and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment anddisposition(处置)of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one; but the general counsels, and the plots andmarshalling(编组的)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 needpruning(修剪)by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. Crafty mencontemn(蔑视,侮辱)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. Read not to contradict andconfute(驳斥); nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. Some books also may be read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others; but that would be only in the less important arguments, and the meaner sort of books; elsedistilled(净化的)books are, like common distilled waters, flashy things.
Reading makes a full man; conference a ready man; and writing and exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he head need have muchcunning(狡猾的,巧妙的), to seem to know that he does not. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic andrhetoric(修辞)able to contend. Abeunt studia in mores. Nay there is no stond orimpediment(口吃,妨碍)in the wit, but may be wrought out by fit studies: like as diseases of the body may have appropriate exercises. Bowling is good for the stone and reins; shooting for the lungs and breast; gentle walking for the stomach; riding for the head; and the like. So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again. If his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores. If he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call up one thing to prove and illustrate another, let him study the lawyers' cases. So every defect of the mind may have a special receipt.
On the greenery of protect ofchoreographic(舞蹈的), Is the mood of the fresh and cool dew drops On the greenery of protect of choreographic, Is the mood of the fresh and cool dew drops.
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