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Thou can'st not die. Here thou art more than safe
Where every book is thy epitaph.
Thou can'st not die. Here thou art more than safe
Where every book is thy epitaph.
The richest minds need not large libraries.
The richest minds need not large libraries.
A library is an arsenal of liberty.
A library is an arsenal of liberty.
The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so read more
The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed.
Food for the soul.
[Lat., Nutrimentum spiritus.]
Food for the soul.
[Lat., Nutrimentum spiritus.]
All round the room my silent servants wait,
My friends in every season, bright and dim.
All round the room my silent servants wait,
My friends in every season, bright and dim.
A great library contains the diary of the human race.
A great library contains the diary of the human race.
The first thing naturally when one enters a scholar's study or
library, is to look at his books. One read more
The first thing naturally when one enters a scholar's study or
library, is to look at his books. One gets a notion very
speedily of his tastes and the range of his pursuits by a glance
round his book-shelves.
The quantity of books in a person's library, is often a cloud of witnesses to the ignorance of the owner.
The quantity of books in a person's library, is often a cloud of witnesses to the ignorance of the owner.
