Reading and thinking to look at the titles of the two texts on pages two and three and predict what each text is about, then read and check . your answers of studies. Francis bacon studies serve for delight, for ornament and for ability. Their chief views for delight is in private ness and retiring for ornament is in discourse. Unfertile is in the judgment and disposition of business for expert men can execute and perhaps judge of particulars one by one. But the general councils and the plots and Marshall 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 holy by their rules, is the humor of a and they perfect nature and not are perfected by experience for natural abilities, are like natural plants that need pruning by study. And studies themselves do give fourth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. Crafty men contemnd 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. One by observation, read not to contradict and confute not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and disco to sider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be tied and digested. That is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read but not curiously, and some you to be read holy 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 a less important arguments and meaner sort of books else they still. Books are like common distill waters, flashy things. Reading makes a full man, conference a ready man and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man right little, he had need have a great memory. If he confer little, he had need have a present weight. And if he read little, he had need have much coming to seem to know that he does not. Histories make men wise. Poets whitty the mathematic subtle natural philosophy, deep moral grave logic and rhetoriC2Content abuse to deal in mere studies pass into one's character. No, there is no hindrance or impediment in the wait, but maybe worked out by fit studies like a disease, if the body may have appropriate exercises. Bowling is good for the stone and rains, shooting for the lungs and breast, gentle walking for the stomach, riding for the head and alike. So if a man's would be wondering, let him study the mathematics for in demonstrations. If this would be called away, never so little, he must begin again. If this would be not up to distinguish or fine differences, let him study the schoolman. For they are simili sectors skilled in analysis. If he be not up to beat over matters and to call up one thing to prove and illustrate another, let him study the lawless cases. So every defect of the mine may have a special receipt encouraging learning. Chini, translated by burton Watson, the gentlemen, says learning should never cease. Blue comes from the indigo plant, but is blow than the plant itself. Ice is made of water, but is colder than water ever is. A piece of wood as straight as a plum line may be bent into a circle as true as any drawn with a camps. And even after the wood has dried, IT will not straighten out again. The bending process has made IT that way. Thus, if what is pressed against the straight ing board, IT can be made straight. If metal is put to the Greenstone, IT can be sharpened, and if the gentleman studies widely and each day examine himself, his wisdom will become clear and his conduct be without fault. I once try spending the whole day in thought, but I found IT of less value than a moment of study. I once tried standing on tip to and gazing into the distance, but I found I could see much farther by climbing to a high place. If you clip to a high place and wave to someone, IT is not as though your arms were any longer than usual. And yet people can see you from much farther away. If you shout down the wind. IT is not as though your voice were any stronger than usual. And yet people can hear you much more clearly. Those who make use of carriages or horses may not be any faster workers than anyone else, and yet they are able to travel a thousand. Those who make use of boats may not know how to swim, and yet they manage to get across rivers. The gentleman is, by birth, no different from any other man. IT is just that. He is good at making use of things, pile up earth to make a mountain, and wind and rain will rise up from IT. Pile up water to make a deep pull, and dragons will appear. Pile up good deeds to create virtue, and god like understanding will come of itself there, the mind of the stage will find. But unless you pile up little steps, you can never join your thousand. Unless you pile up tiny streams, you can never make a river or a sea. The finest throw bread cannot travel ten paces in one leap, but the serious nag can go a ten days journey. Achievement consists of never giving up. If you start carving and then give up, you cannot even cut through a piece of rotten wood. But if you persist without stopping, you can carve an inlay metal or stone. Earthworms have no sharp claws or teeth, no strong muscles or bones, and yet above ground, they feast on the mud, and below they drink at the yellow springs. This is because they keep their minds on one thing. Grabs have six legs and two pines. But unless they can find an empty hole dug by a snake or a neel, they have no place to lodge. This is because they allow their minds to go off in all directions.