Books Quotes
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Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.
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Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a certain potency of life in them, to be as active as the soul whose progen they are; they preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of the living intellect that bred them.
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Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. - They are good for nothing but to inspire. - I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.
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Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
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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.
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Books are the metempsychosis; the symbol and presage of immortality. - The dead are scattered, and none shall find them; but behold they are here.
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Books are the true levellers. - They give to all who faithful!; use them, the society, the spiritual presence of the greatest and best of our race.
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Books are the true levellers. They give to all who faithfully use them the society, the spiritual presence, of the best and greatest of our race.
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Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.
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Books that you may carry to the fireside, and hold readily in your hand, are the most useful after all.
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Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely necessary; to men of real science, they are tools: but more are tools to them.
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Books to the ceiling,/ Books to the sky,/ My pile of books is a mile high./ How I love them! How I need them!/ I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.
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Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.
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Books, as Dryden has aptly termed them, are spectacles to read nature. Aeschylus and Aristotle, Shakespeare and Bacon, are priests who preach and expound the mysteries of man and the universe. They teach us to understand and feel what we see, to decipher and syllable the hieroglyphics of the senses.
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Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again - for, like true friends, they will never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy - Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
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Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.
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Books, the children of the brain.
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Camerado, this is no book. Who touches this, touches a man.
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Cats won't lie on a book that isn't well written.
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Dead counsellors are the most instructive, because they are heard with patience and reverence.
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