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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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations. – 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

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

People often become scholars for the same reason they become soldiers: simply because they are unfit for any other station. Their right hand has to earn them a livelihood; one might say they lie down like bears in winter and seek sustenance from their paws. – G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg

And let a scholar all earths volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock. – George Chapman

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I expect Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man. – George Meredith

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What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world; to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world. – Robert E. Lee, letter to his wife, 1864

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Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart. – Ruth Graham

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I feel very warm towards Mum and Dad for giving us the independence they did. My childhood, and the fact we didnt have a TV, gave me a boundless imagination. – Dido Armstrong

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