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The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-

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

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

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

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

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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

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