Scholarship

Scholarship, far from leading inexorably to a profession, may in fact preclude it. For it does not permit you to abandon it.

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ERUDITION, n. Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.

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Genitals are a great distraction to scholarship.

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And let a Scholler, all earths volumes carrie,He will be but a walking dictionarie.

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

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We must distinguish between a man of polite learning and a meer schollar: the first is a gentleman and what a gentleman should be; the last is a meer bookcase, a bundle of letters, a head stufft with the jargon of languages, a man that understands every body but is understood by no body.

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A great scholar…is…not one who depends simply on an infinite memory, but also on an infinite and electrical power of combination; bringing together from the four winds, like the angel of the resurrection, what else were dust from dead men's bones, into the unity of breathing life.

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Hell is paved with the skulls of great scholars, and paled in with the bones of great men.

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Just as two knives are both sharpened by being rubbed one against the other, so scholars improve and increase in knowledge when in touch with one another.

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There mark what Ills the Scholar's Life assail,Toil, Envy, Want, the Garret, and the Jail.

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For if hevene be on this erthe, and ese to any soule,It is in cloistre or in scole.

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You would think him a very foolish Fellow, that should not value a Vertuous, or a Wise Man, infinitely before a great Scholar.

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Morris read through the letter. Was it a shade too fulsome? No, that was another law of academic life: it is impossible to be excessive in flattery of one’s peers.

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True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgement.

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Some on commission, some for the love of learning,The drumming of the demon in their ears.

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The ink of scholars (used in writing) is weighed on the Day of Judgement with the blood of martyrs and the ink of scholars outweighs the blood of martyrs.

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One should observe our scholars closely: they have reached the point where they think only “reactively,” i.e. they must read before they can think.

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Let us explain Homer in no terms but his own, and our understanding of the work will be the fresher for it. Once the words are grasped with greater precision in their meaning and relevance, they will suddenly recover all their ancient splendour. The scholar too, like the restorer of an old painting, may yet in many places remove the dark coating of dust and varnish which the centuries have drawn over the picture, and thus give back to the colours their original brilliance.

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