Quote by Robert Burton
A mere scholar, a mere ass. - Robert Burton

A mere scholar, a mere ass. – Robert Burton

Other quotes by Robert Burton

To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun. – Robert Burton

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Love
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What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning loves the cloudless summer sun, nature gay adorning. – Robert Burton

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Morning
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Other Quotes from
Scholars, Scholarship
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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

Im a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen. – J. M. Synge

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

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Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret. – Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Beauty

However, I learned something. I thought that if the young person, the student, has poetry in him or her, to offer them help is like offering a propeller to a bird. – Norman MacCaig

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Poetry

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause. – George Eliot

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A film that I love is Raising Arizona and thats funny but its quite indie and weird and odd and quirky. Id love to do something like that. Who knows? – Stephen Moyer

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funny