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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Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them. – Samuel Johnson

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Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost, must always end in pain. – 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

And let a scholar all earths volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock. – George Chapman

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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