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

A mere scholar, a mere ass. – Robert Burton

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

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Scholars, Scholarship
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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

There mark what ills the scholars life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron. – Samuel Johnson

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

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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