Quote by Samuel Johnson
There mark what ills the scholars life assail, toil, envy, want, a

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

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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair. – Samuel Johnson

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Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test. – Samuel Johnson

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It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality. – 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

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

He has the common feeling of his profession. He enjoys a statement twice as much if it appears in fine print, and anything that turns up in a footnote… takes on the character of divine revelation. – Margaret Halsey

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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Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits. – Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh [written in the context of aging —t&#9

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