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“Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.”
Elizabeth Hardwick Quotes |
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“Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all”
Henry David Thoreau Quotes |
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“If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it”
Toni Morrison Quotes |
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“Master books, but do not let them master you. - Read to live, not live to read.”
Owen Meredith Quotes |
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“This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.”
Dorothy Parker Quotes |
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“A book is the only immortality.”
Rufus Choate Quotes |
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“If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it's great, it should be read at least three times.”
Anatole Broyard Quotes |
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“The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.”
John Greenleaf Whittier Quotes |
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“Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time”
Edwin P. Whipple Quotes |
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“Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.”
Francis Bacon, Sr. Quotes |
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“Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that part of the pleasure of a library lies in its very existence”
Jan Morris Quotes |
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“Medicine for the soul.”
Unattributed Author Quotes Source: Diodorus Siculus (I, 49, 3), inscription over the door of the Library at Thebes
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“Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind,
which are delivered down from generation to generation, as
presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.”
Joseph Addison Quotes Source: in the "Spectator", no. 166
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“That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed
with profit.”
Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes Source: Table Talk (bk. I, Learning-Books)
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“A man of one book.
[Lat., Homo unius libri.]”
Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes Source: Table Talk (bk. I, Learning-Books)
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“Books are delightful when prosperity happily smiles; when
adversity threatens, they are inseparable comforters. They give
strength to human compacts, nor are grave opinions brought
forward without books. Arts and sciences, the benefits of which
no mind can calculate. depend upon books.”
Richard Aungervyle (Aungerville) (a/k/a Richard de Bury) Quotes Source: Philobiblon (ch. I)
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“You, O Books, are the golden vessels of the temple, the arms of
the clerical militia with which the missiles of the most wicked
are destroyed; fruitful olives, vines of Engaddi, fig-trees
knowing no sterility; burning lamps to be ever held in the hand.”
Richard Aungervyle (Aungerville) (a/k/a Richard de Bury) Quotes Source: Philobiblon (ch. XV)
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“But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books,
exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual
renovation.”
Francis Bacon Quotes Source: Advancement of Learning (bk. I, Advantages of Learning)
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“Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few
to be chewed and digested.”
Francis Bacon Quotes Source: Essay--Of Studies
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“Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.”
Francis Bacon Quotes Source: Proposition touching Amendment of Laws
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“Worthy books
Are not companions--they are solitudes:
We lose ourselves in them and all our cares.”
Philip James Bailey Quotes Source: Festus (sc. A Village Feast, Evening)
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“That place that does contain
My books, the best companions, is to me
A glorious court, where hourly I converse
With the old sages and philosophers;
And sometimes, for variety, I confer
With kings and emperors, and weigh their counsels;
Calling their victories, if unjustly got,
Unto a strict account, and, in my fancy,
Deface their ill-placed statues.”
Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher Quotes Source: The Elder Brother (act I, sc. 2, l. 177)
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“And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many
books there is no end: and much study is a weariness of the
flesh.”
Bible Quotes Source: Ecclesiastes (ch. XII, v. 12)
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“Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book,
that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever.”
Bible Quotes Source: Isaiah (ch. XXX, v. 8)
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“Oh that my words were now written! on that they were printed in
a book!”
Bible Quotes Source: Job (ch. XIX, v. 23)
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