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

A mere scholar, a mere ass. – Robert Burton

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I may not here omit those two main plagues, and common dotages of human kind, wine and women, which have infatuated and besotted myriads of people. They go commonly together. – 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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Scholarship except by accident is never the measure of a persons power. – Josiah Gilbert Holland

When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature then we the pedant. – Confucius

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

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

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I also found that for myself, since Ive had no religious education, it was so interesting to see the different versions of heaven and what life on earth means. – Barbara Walters

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Similarly, thought is a system. That system not only includes thought and feelings, but it includes the state of the body it includes the whole of society – as thought is passing back and forth between people in a process by which thought evolved from ancient times. – David Bohm

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I believe my past is my strength. – Michel Martelly

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Whoever places his trust into a system will soon be without a home. While you are building your third story, the two lower ones have already been dismantled. – Franz Grillparzer

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