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The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.
The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.
We get no good
By being ungenerous, even to a book,
And calculating profits--so much help
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We 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--
'Tis then we get the right good from a book.
A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.
A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.
The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine -- but divine in the sense that all great read more
The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine -- but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.
You, O Books, are the golden vessels of the temple, the arms of
the clerical militia with which the read more
You, O Books, are the golden vessels of the temple, the arms of
the clerical militia with which the missiles of the most wicked
are destroyed; fruitful olives, vines of Engaddi, fig-trees
knowing no sterility; burning lamps to be ever held in the hand.
Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands read more
Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.
Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.
Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
