Books Quotes

• "Good books are to the young mind what the warming sun and the refreshing rain of spring are to the seeds which have lain dormant in the frosts of winter. They are more, for they may save from that which is worse than death, as well as bless with that which is better than life."
  By: Horace Mann
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• "As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you in a book."
  By: George MacDonald, The Marquis of Lossie (ch. XLII)
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• "That wonderful book, while it obtains admiration from the most fastidious critics, is loved by those who are too simple to admire it."
  By: Thomas Babington Macaulay, On Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress
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• "Gentlemen use books as Gentlewomen handle their flowers, who in the morning stick them in their heads, and at night strawe them at their heeles."
  By: John Lyly (Lylie or Lyllie), Euphues--To the Gentlemen Readers
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• "Every great book is an action, and every great action is a book."
  By: Martin Luther
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• "What a sense of security in an old book which Time has criticised for us!"
  By: James Russell Lowell, My Study Windows--Library of Old Authors
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• "If I were asked what book is better than a cheap book, I would answer that there is one book better than a cheap book, and that is a book honestly come by."
  By: James Russell Lowell, before the U.S. Senate Committee on Patents
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• "All books are either dreams or swords, You can cut, or you can drug, with words. . . . . My swords are tempered for every speech, For fencing wit, or to carve a breach Through old abuses the world condones."
  By: Amy Lowell, Sword Blades and Poppy Seed
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• "Books are sepulchres of thought."
  By: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Wind Over the Chimney (st. 8)
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• "Leaving us heirs to amplest heritages Of all the best thoughts of the greatest sages, And giving tongues unto the silent dead!"
  By: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Sonnet of Mrs. Kemble's Reading from Shakespeare
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• "The pleasant books, that silently among Our household treasures take familiar places, And are to us as if a living tongue Spake from the printed leaves or pictured faces!"
  By: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Seaside and Fireside--Dedication
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• "The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, and all the sweet serenity of books."
  By: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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• "It is a good thing to read books, and need not be a bad thing to write them, but in any case, it is a pious thing to collect them."
  By: Frederick Locker-Lampson
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• "It is a sure evidence of a good book if it pleases us more and more as we grow older."
  By: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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• "Do not believe that a book is good, if in reading it thou dost not become more contented with thy existence, if it does not rouse up in thee most generous feelings."
  By: Johann Kaspar Lavater (John Caspar Lavater)
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• "The love of books is a love which requires neither justification, apology, nor defence."
  By: John Alfred Langford, The Praise of Books--Preliminary Essay
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