Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the
Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a
book.
Bible
Quotes , Source: Job (ch. XXXI, v. 35)
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The covers of this book are too far apart.
Bible
Quotes , Source: Job (ch. XXXI, v. 35)
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We get no good
By being ungenerous, even to a book,
And calculating profits--so much help
By so much reading. It is rather when
We gloriously forget ourselves, and plunge
Soul-forward, headlong, into a book's profound,
Impassioned for its beauty, and salt of truth--
'Tis then we get the right good from a book.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Quotes , Source: Aurora Leigh (bk. I, l. 700)
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Books, books, books!
I had found the secret of a garret room
Piled high with cases in my father's name;
Piled high, packed large,--where, creeping in and out
Among the giant fossils of my past,
Like some small nimble mouse between the ribs
Of a mastodon, I nibbled here and there
At this or that box, pulling through the gap,
In heats of terror, haste, victorious joy,
The first book first. And how I felt it beat
Under my pillow, in the morning's dark,
An hour before the sun would let me read!
My books!
At last, because the time was ripe,
I chanced upon the poets.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Quotes , Source: Aurora Leigh (bk. I, l. 830)
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In you are sent
The types of Truths whose life is The To Come;
In you soars up the Adam from the fall;
In you the Future as the Past is given--
Ev'n in our death ye bid us hail our birth;--
Unfold these pages, and behold the Heaven,
Without one grave-stone left upon the Earth.
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton
Quotes , Source: The Souls of Books (st. 5, l. 11)
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The profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader. The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
Ezra Pound
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He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.
C. C. Colton
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One can live with the thought of one's own death. It is the thought of the death of the words and books that is terrifying for that is the deeper extinction.
Lance Morrow
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My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.
Dylan Thomas
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For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.
Amy Lowell
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Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
Groucho Marx
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