［培根美文集］-Of Studies
STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, 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, and disposition 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 sloth； 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 forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience……
读书足以怡情,足以傅彩,足以长才。其怡情也,最见于独处幽居之时；其傅彩也,最见于高谈阔论之中；其长才也,最见于处世判事之际。练达之士虽能分别处理细事或一一判别枝节,然纵观统筹、全局策划,则舍好学深思者莫属。读书费时过多易惰,文采藻饰太盛则矫,全凭条文断事乃学究故态。读书补天然之不足,经验又补读书之不足,盖天生才干犹如自然花草,读书然后知如何修剪移接；而书中所示,如不以经验范之,则又大而无当……
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