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Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were
only the history of pinheads.
Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were
only the history of pinheads.
'Tis well to borrow from the good and the great;
'Tis wise to learn: 'tis God-like to create!
'Tis well to borrow from the good and the great;
'Tis wise to learn: 'tis God-like to create!
A great library contains the diary of the human race.
A great library contains the diary of the human race.
Someone who has set out in the vehicle of a Bodhisattva should decide that `I must lead all the beings read more
Someone who has set out in the vehicle of a Bodhisattva should decide that `I must lead all the beings to nirvana, into that realm of nirvana which leaves nothing behind'. What is this realm of nirvana which leaves nothing behind ?
He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the read more
He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end
The richest minds need not large libraries.
The richest minds need not large libraries.
A limbo large and broad, since call'd
The Paradise of Fools to few unknown.
A limbo large and broad, since call'd
The Paradise of Fools to few unknown.
A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a read more
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
He who has gold makes and accomplishes whatever he wishes in the world and finally uses it to send souls read more
He who has gold makes and accomplishes whatever he wishes in the world and finally uses it to send souls to paradise.
