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Quote by Ezra Pound
Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rig

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

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I dunno what my 23 infantile years in America signify. I left as soon as motion was autarchic — I mean my motion. – Ezra Pound

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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. – Ezra Pound

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Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance… poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music. – Ezra Pound

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Scholarship except by accident is never the measure of a persons power. – Josiah Gilbert Holland

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

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A reading machine, always wound up and going, he mastered whatever was not worth the knowing. – James Russell Lowell

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He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes. – Thomas Babington Macaulay

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Fitness is not an option. Its part of my job. – Alison Sweeney

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You must accept that you might fail then, if you do your best and still dont win, at least you can be satisfied that youve tried. If you dont accept failure as a possibility, you dont set high goals, you dont branch out, you dont try – you dont take the risk. – Rosalynn Carter

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