A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher. - Johann von Goethe

A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher. – Johann von Goethe

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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

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

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

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

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