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“The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.”
Carl T. Rowan Quotes |
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“"A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life."”
Henry Ward Beecher Quotes |
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“I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, "Where's the self-help section?" She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose”
George Carlin Quotes |
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“A library is an arsenal of liberty.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes |
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“A library implies an act of faith”
Victor Hugo Quotes |
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“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
Jorge Luis Borges Quotes |
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“Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future”
Ray Bradbury Quotes |
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“If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in a library.”
Lily Tomlin Quotes |
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“A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them”
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“Food for the soul.
[Lat., Nutrimentum spiritus.]”
Unattributed Author Quotes Source: inscription on the Berlin Royal Library
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“The medicine chest of the soul.”
Unattributed Author Quotes Source: inscription of a library
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“The richest minds need not large libraries.”
Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes Source: Table Talk (bk. I, Learning-Books)
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“Libraries are as the shrines where all the relics of the ancient
saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or
imposture, are preserved and reposed.”
Francis Bacon Quotes Source: Libraries
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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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“A library is but the soul's burial-ground. It is the land of
shadows.”
Henry Ward Beecher Quotes Source: Star Papers--Oxford--Bodleian Library
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“All round the room my silent servants wait,
My friends in every season, bright and dim.”
Barry Cornwall (pseudonym of Bryan Waller Procter) Quotes Source: My Books
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“A great library contains the diary of the human race.”
Rev. George Dawson Quotes Source: Address on Opening the Birmingham Free Library
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“It is a vanity to persuade the world one hath much learning, by
getting a great library.”
Thomas Fuller Quotes Source: Holy and Profane States--Of Books (maxim 1)
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“Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were
only the history of pinheads.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Quotes Source: Poet at the Breakfast Table (VIII)
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“The first thing naturally when one enters a scholar's study or
library, is to look at his books. One gets a notion very
speedily of his tastes and the range of his pursuits by a glance
round his book-shelves.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Quotes Source: Poet at the Breakfast Table (VIII)
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“What a place to be in is an old library! It seems as though all
the souls of all the writers that have bequeathed their labours
to these Bodleians were reposing here as in some dormitory, or
middle state. I do not want to handle, to profane the leaves,
their winding-sheets. I could as soon dislodge a shade. I seem
to inhale learning, walking amid their foliage; and the odor of
their old moth-scented coverings is fragrant as the first bloom
of those sciential apples which grew amid the happy orchard.
- Charles Lamb (used pseudonym Elia),”
Charles Lamb (used pseudonym Elia) Quotes Source: Essays of Elia--Oxford in the Vacation
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“I love vast libraries; yet there is a doubt,
If one be better with them or without,--
Unless he use them wisely, and, indeed,
Knows the high art of what and how to read.”
J.G. Saxe Quotes Source: The Library
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“'Tis well to borrow from the good and the great;
'Tis wise to learn: 'tis God-like to create!”
J.G. Saxe Quotes Source: The Library
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“Some book there is that she desires to see.
Which is it, girl, of these? Open them, boy.
But thou art deeper read and better skilled:
Come and take choice of all my library,
And so beguile thy sorrow, till the heavens
Reveal the damned contriver of this deed.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: Titus Andronicus (Titus at IV, i)
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“A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of
diabolical knowledge.”
Richard Brinsley Sheridan Quotes Source: The Rivals (act I, sc. 2)
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