Books Quotes

• "Thee will I sing in comely wainscot bound And golden verge enclosing thee around; The faithful horn before, from age to age Preserving thy invulnerable page. Behind thy patron saint in armor shines With sword and lance to guard the sacred lines; Th' instructive handle's at the bottom fixed Lest wrangling critics should pervert the text."
  By: Thomas Tickell, The Hornbook
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• "The book exists for us, perchance, which will explain our miracles and reveal new ones."
  By: Henry David Thoreau, Walden
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• "It is not all books that are as dull as their readers."
  By: Henry David Thoreau, Walden
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• "Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations."
  By: Henry David Thoreau, Walden
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• "At least let us have healthy books."
  By: Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
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• "Homeliness is almost as great a merit in a book as in a house, if the reader would abide there. It is next to beauty, and a very high art."
  By: Henry David Thoreau
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• "Books that are books are all that you want, and there are but half a dozen in any thousand."
  By: Henry David Thoreau
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• "Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside."
  By: Henry David Thoreau, in a letter to B.B. Wiley, April 26, 1857
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• "If the secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader."
  By: William Makepeace Thackeray
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• "Books have their own destiny. [Lat., Habent sua fata libelli.]"
  By: Maurus Terentianus, Poetics
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• "But every page having an ample marge, And every marge enclosing in the midst A square of text that looks a little blot."
  By: Lord Alfred Tennyson, Idylls of the King--Merlin and Vivien (l. 669)
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• "Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they passed."
  By: Sir William Temple, Ancient and Modern Learning
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• "Aquinas was once asked, with what compendium a man might become learned? He answered "By reading of one book.""
  By: Jeremy Taylor, Life of Christ (pt. II, s. XII, 16)
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• "Not many but good books."
  By: Bayard Taylor
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• "Books, the children of the brain."
  By: Jonathan Swift, A Tale of a Tub (sec. I)
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• "Every book is, in an intimate sense, a circular-letter to the friends of him who writes it."
  By: Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK
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