The scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.


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The scholar who cherishes the love of comfort, is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
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A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
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The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.
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He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.
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Iron sharpens iron; scholar, the scholar.
WILLIAM DRUMMOND
The scholar who contemplates intelligently is considered great.
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There's not a single scholar on the face of the Earth who buys any of it.
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I would like to be a scholar in whatever I do, a scholar is never finished, he is always seeking and...
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No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.
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No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar
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No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.
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Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.
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Each day is the scholar of yesterday.
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A radiant scholar(master) is worshipped.
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The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himsel...
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To be a scholar study math, to be a smart study magic.
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The high-ceilinged rooms, the little balconies, alcoves, nooks and angles all suggest sanctuary, esc...
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A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher.
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A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher.
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A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
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Stop! You can't be a Scholar of God by tending to one fish in the jar.
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The scholar does not consider gold and jade to be precious treasures, but loyalty and good faith.
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That scholar who is full of greed, arrogant pride and egotism, is known to be a fool. So read the Na...
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I'm not a scholar of Islamic history or jurisprudence or anything.
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A scholar without diligence is a lover without money
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A mere scholar, a mere ass.
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In the School of Coquettes Madam Rose is a scholar,-- O, they fish with all nets In the ...
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The ink of the scholar is more holy than the blood of the martyr.
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The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.
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The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr
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I've never know him to be anything other than a gentleman and a scholar.
GLENN RICHARDSON
I'm not a scholar, I didn't have a scholar's attitude toward literature.
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Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.
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Witch, scholar, poet, dreamer, and the rest...
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You are a religious and a scholar; what the fuck?
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I cannot forgive a scholar his homeless despondency.
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A scholar can never let mere wrongness get in the way of the theory.
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A scholar always treads on the path of righteousness and as result becomes successful.
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Any great warrior is also a scholar, and a poet, and an artist.
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Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo...
GERMANY KENT
The ink of the scholar and the blood of a martyr are of equal value in heaven.
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A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.
WILLIAM HAZLITT
Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
A Sanskrit word appeared in the paragraph: ANTEVASIN. It means, ‘one who lives at the border.’ I...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
Someday I must read this scholar Everyone. He seems to have written so much--all of it wrong.
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A scholar cannot sit with an ignorant person and expect to gain by the meeting.
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He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes.
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I am a scholar of religions with four degrees, including one in the New Testament and fluency in Bib...
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Moses - the man of God - was a species of human chameleon - scholar, general, law-giver, leader, etc...
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He has come through from being a scholar with us and he is not far away from his first start.
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I could have been a Rhodes Scholar, except for my grades.
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The scholar without good breeding is a nitpicker; the philosopher a cynic; the soldier a brute and e...
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His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.
ROBERT BURNS
His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.
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If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not p...
KENNETH L. PIKE
A man becomes a scholar by the help of self-study and proper analysis of whatever he has studied.
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Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ...
GERMANY KENT
I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder?
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OK, I'll put it like this: I doubt if we will see another All-American basketball athlete who is...
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I think the spirit of Penn fans is terrific. What I'm most proud of is that we have scholar-athletes...
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And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate ...
GEORGE CHAPMAN
Every person seems to acknowledge his greatness. He blends together the profound politician with the...
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If you steal from one book you are condemned as a plagiarist, but if you steal from ten books you ar...
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An ally in time of need is worth more than gold.
(Lady Rose quoting Scholar Tan)
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(All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON
Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object? -Confucius.
CONFUCIUS
One cannot demand of a scholar that he show himself a scholar everywhere in society, but the whole t...
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I would rather see a school produce a happy street cleaner than a neurotic scholar.
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The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL
The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.
G. W. F. HEGEL
And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articul...
GEORGE CHAPMAN
A man who has lived in many places is not likely to be deceived by the local errors of his native vi...
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Truth, which is important to a scholar, has got to be concrete. And there is nothing more concrete t...
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Truth, which is important to a scholar, has got to be concrete. And there is nothing more concrete t...
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You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ...
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I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.
J. M. SYNGE
I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.
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When a scholar goes to seek out a bride he should take along an ignoramus as an expert
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Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety ...
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The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other m...
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The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other m...
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We value virtue but do not discuss it. The honest bookkeeper, the faithful wife, the earnest scholar...
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Heroes and scholars represent the opposite extremes... The scholar struggles for the benefit of all ...
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Everything is like a wall.
Said a scholar to the troll.
Bang your head to go on through....
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Sometimes these kids that are well-rounded don't get enough credit. We want to recognize the true sc...
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Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
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The love you get, is equal to the love you give.
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Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
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All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth ...
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And they cast lots, ward against ward, as well the small as the great, the teacher as the scholar.
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Make no mistake, abortion-on-demand is not a right guaranteed by the Constitution. No serious schola...
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CONFUCIUS
Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.
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People with virtue must speak out; People who speak are not all virtuous.
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