I cannot forgive a scholar his homeless despondency. - Ralph Waldo

I cannot forgive a scholar his homeless despondency. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances. He plies the slow, unhonored, and unpaid task of observation. He is the worlds eye. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly. – Henry David Thoreau

Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man. – Ezra Pound

When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature then we the pedant. – Confucius

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