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Quote by William Hazlitt
A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not eve

A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it. – William Hazlitt

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Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else. – William Hazlitt

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There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiless, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than the Public. It is the greatest of cowards, for it is afraid of itself. – William Hazlitt

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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

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

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

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The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly. – Henry David Thoreau

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