There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind.
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If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, There lived a great people-a black people-who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization.
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A man loses contact with reality if he is not surrounded by his books.
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Books give not wisdome where none was before, But where some is, there reading makes it more.
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It meant that New York philanthropists, New York society, would now rediscover the library... That learning, books, education have glamour, that self-improvement has glamour, that hope has glamour.
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There is divine beauty in learning, just as there is human beauty in tolerance. To learn means to accept the postulate that life did not begin at my birth. Others have been here before me, and I walk in their footsteps. The books I have read were composed by generations of fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, teachers and disciples. I am the sum total of their experiences, their quests. And so are you.
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Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it.
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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
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Books are the quietest and most constant of friends they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.
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There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish of fritters.
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If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skulls, then why do we read it Good God, we also would be happy if we had no books and such books that make us happy we could, if need be, write ourselves. What we must have are those books that come on us like ill fortune, like the death of one we love better than ourselves, like suicide. A book must be an ice axe to break the sea frozen inside us.
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Books have the same enemies as people fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.
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In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we shall not end up as breakfast for newts and polyps, I seem to hear the muffled cries of all the words in all the books with covers closed.
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There are times when I think that the ideal library is composed solely of reference books. They are like understanding friends-always ready to meet your mood, always ready to change the subject when you have had enough of this or that.
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Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
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Every artist wants his work to be permanent. But what is The Aswan Dam covered some of the greatest art in the world. Venice is sinking. Great books and pictures were lost in the Florence floods. In the meantime we still enjoy butterflies.
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Generally speaking, men are influenced by books which clarify their own thought, which express their own notions well, or which suggest to them ideas which their minds are already predisposed to accept.
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Christ is the Master the Scriptures are only the servant. The true way to test all the Books is to see whether they work the will of Christ or not. No Book which does not preach Christ can be apostolic, though Peter or Paul were its author. And no Book which does preach Christ can fail to be apostolic though Judas, Ananias, Pilate or Herod were its author.
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Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.
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From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.
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Only those books come down which deserve to last. All the gilt edges, vellum and morocco, all the presentation copies to all the libraries will not preserve a book in circulation beyond its intrinsic date.
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To limit the press is to insult a nation to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.
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Whenever books are burned men also in the end are burned.
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Wherever they burn books, they will also, in the end, burn people.
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Books.. Are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.
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