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Rocking on a lazy billow
With roaming eyes,
Cushioned on a dreamy pillow,
Thou art now wise.
Wake the power within thee slumbering,
Trim the plot that's in thy keeping,
Thou wilt bless the task when reaping
Sweet labour's prize.
Author: John Stuart Blackie
Source: Address to the Edinburgh Students, quoted by Lord Iddlesleigh "Desultory Reading"
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Strange to the world, he wore a bashful look,
The fields his study, nature was his book.
Author: Robert Bloomfield
Source: Farmer's Boy--Spring (l. 31)
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Experience is the best of schoolmasters, only the school-fees are
heavy.
Author: Thomas Carlyle
Source: Miscellaneous Essays (I, 137), (ed. 1888)
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The scholar who cherishes the love of comfort, is not fit to be
deemed a scholar.
Author: Confucius
Source: Analects (bk. XIV, ch. III)
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The studious class are their own victims; they are thin and pale,
their feet are cold, their heads are hot, the night is without
sleep, the day a fear of interruption,--pallor, squalor, hunger,
and egotism. If you come near them and see what conceits they
entertain--they are abstractionists, and spend their days and
nights in dreaming some dream; in expecting the homage of society
to some precious scheme built on a truth, but destitute of
proportion in its presentment, of justness in its application,
and of all energy of will in the schemer to embody and vitalize
it.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: Representative Men--Montaigne
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The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor
its great scholars great men.
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Source: Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (VI)
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Ah, pensive scholar, what is fame?
A fitful tongue of leaping flame;
A giddy whirlwind's fickle gust,
That lifts a pinch of mortal dust;
A few swift years, and who can show
Which dust was Bill, and which was Joe?
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Source: Poems of the Class of '29--Bill and Joe (st. 7)
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Where should the scholar live? In solitude, or in society? in
the green stillness of the country, where he can hear the heart
of Nature beat, or in the dark, gray town where he can hear and
feel the throbbing heart of man?
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Source: Hyperion (bk. I, ch. VIII)
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Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: As You Like It (Jaques at II, vii)
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From his cradle
He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one,
Exceeding wise, fair-spoken, and persuading;
Lofty and sour to them that loved him not,
But to those men that sought him, sweet as summer.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Life of King Henry the Eighth (Griffith at IV, ii)
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And with unwearied fingers drawing out
The lines of life, from living knowledge hid.
Author: Edmund Spenser
Source: The Faerie Queene (bk. IV, canto II, st. 48)
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