［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……
讀書足以怡情,足以傅彩,足以長才。其怡情也,最見于獨處幽居之時；其傅彩也,最見于高談闊論之中；其長才也,最見于處世判事之際。練達之士雖能分別處理細事或一一判別枝節,然縱觀統籌、全局策劃,則舍好學深思者莫屬。讀書費時過多易惰,文采藻飾太盛則矯,全憑條文斷事乃學究故態。讀書補天然之不足,經驗又補讀書之不足,蓋天生才干猶如自然花草,讀書然后知如何修剪移接；而書中所示,如不以經驗范之,則又大而無當……
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