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Show Passing Comment On Trivialities LIFE ! I have spent my life laboriously labor-iously doing nothing. Hugo Grotius Life is a tragedy wherein we sit as spectators for awhile, and then act out our part in it. Jonathan Swift Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed. enjoy-ed. Samuel Johnson Life is festival only to the wise. R- W. Emerson Life is simply a process of combustion. M. J. Schleiden Knowledge, love, power there is the complete life. H. F. Amiel POETRY Poetry is vocal painting, as painting' is silent poetry. Simonides of Ceos. It is indignation that leads to the writing of poetry. Juvenal The man deaf to the voice of poetry is a barbarian, let him be who he may. J. W. Gothe Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds. P. B. Shelley As civilization advances, poetry po-etry almost necessarily declines. T. B. Macauley Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive and widely effective mode of saying things. Matthew Arnold SCHOLARSHIP The scholar who loves comfort com-fort is not fit to be a scholar. , Confucius A mere scholar, a mere ass. Richard Burton A scholar knows nothing of boredom. Jean Paul Richter Scholars are wont to sell their birthright for a mess of learning. H. D. Thoreau The history of scholarship is a record of disagreements. Charles E. Hughes |