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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 from a book.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Books, not which […]
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
[…]
Quotes About Books I
Sunday, July 27th, 2008People die, but books never die.
Beware of the man of one book. ~ Thomas Aquinas
There is no friend as loyal as a book. ~ Ernest Hemingway
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 […]
