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Excerpt From Life Of Sir Stamford Raffles I
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008Excerpt From Life Of Sir Stamford Raffles - Clouds and Death
Raffles had never been physically a strong man, and the little strength he possessed had been so sapped by the sustained and indefatigable labours which he undertook in the course of his public duty, that it is not surprising to find that his health was […]
Quotes about Books V
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 as fresh as the day […]
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 […]
