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STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament1, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse2; and for ability, is in the judgment3, and disposition4 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 sloth5; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the humor of a scholar. They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience: for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need proyning, by study; and studies themselves, do give forth6 directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience......
