There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron.
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Knowledge always desires increase it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, But which will afterwards propagate itself.
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When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence and gratify their malice by quiet neutrality.
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Turn on the prudent ant thy heedful eyes, Observe her labours, sluggard, and be wise.
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The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
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The lustre of diamonds is invigorated by the interposition of darker bodies the lights of a picture are created by the shades the highest pleasure which nature has indulged to sensitive perception is that of rest after fatigue.
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