• The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances. He plies the slow, unhonored, and unpaid task of observation. He is the world's eye.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  American poet and philosopher 1803-1882
  

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1. appearances
2. observation
3. amidst
4. unpaid
5. facts
6. plies

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The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances. He plies the slow, unhonored, and unpaid task of observation. He is the world's eye. by : Ralph Waldo Emerson

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