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Thursday, July 31st, 2008The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man: nothing else that he builds ever lasts monuments fall; nations perish; civilization grow old and die out; new races build others. But in the world of books are volumes that have seen this happen again and again and yet live on. Still young, still [...]
Quotes About Books IV
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008I’ve traveled the world twice over, Met the famous; saints and sinners, Poets and artists, kings and queens, Old stars and hopeful beginners, I’ve been where no-one’s been before, Learned secrets from writers and cooks All with one library ticket To the wonderful world of books. A good book is the best of friends, the [...]
Quotes About Books III
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008We 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 – ‘T is then we get the right good [...]
Quotes About Books II
Monday, July 28th, 2008A good book is the purest essence of a human soul. ~ Thomas Carlyle Books, books, books 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 [...]
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