Ah, pensive scholar, what is fame?
Ah, pensive scholar, what is fame?
The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
These are the hands whose sturdy labor brings The peasant's food, the golden pomp of kings This is the page whose letters shall be seen, Changed by the sun to words of living green This is the scholar whose immortal pen Spells the first lesson hunger taught to men These are the lines that heavencommanded Toil Shows on his deed, the charter of the soil.
The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.
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