Books Quotes

• "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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• "A wise man will select his books, for he would not wish to class them all under the sacred name of friends. Some can be accepted only as acquaintances. The best books of all kinds are taken to heart, and cherished as his most precious possessions. Others to be chatted with for a time, to spend a few pleasant hours with, and laid aside, but not forgotten."
  By: John Alfred Langford, The Praise of Books--Preliminary Essay
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• "Strong as man and tender as woman, they welcome you in every mood, and never turn from you in distress."
  By: John Alfred Langford
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• "No matter what his rank or position may be, the lover of books is the richest and the happiest of the children of men."
  By: John Alfred Langford
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• "As friends and companions, as teachers and consolers, as recreators and amusers, books are always with us, and always ready to respond to our wants. We can take them with us in our wanderings, or gather them around us at our firesides. In the lonely wilderness, and the crowded city, their spirit will be with us, giving a meaning to the seemingly confused movements of humanity, and peopling the desert with their own bright creations."
  By: John Alfred Langford
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• "A book is a friend whose face is constantly changing. If you read it when you are recovering from an illness, and return to it years after, it is changed surely, with the change in yourself."
  By: Andrew Lang, The Library (ch. I)
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• "The writings of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander."
  By: Walter Savage Landor
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• "Books which are no books."
  By: Charles Lamb (used pseudonym Elia), Last Essay of Elia--Detached Thoughts on Books
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• "Where a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and courageous feelings, seek for no other rule to judge the event by; it is good and made by a good workman."
  By: Jean de la Bruyere Books think for me. I can read anything which I call a book.
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• "When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and courageous feelings, seek for no other rule to judge the work by; it is good, and made by a good workman."
  By: Jean de la Bruyere
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• "Every age hath its book."
  By: Koran
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• "He gets at the substance of a book directly; he tears out the heart of it."
  By: Mary Knowles, on Samuel Johnson
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• "We ought to reverence books, to look at them as useful and mighty things. If they are good and true, whether they are about religion or politics, farming, trade, or medicine, they are the message of Christ, the maker of all things, the teacher of all truth."
  By: Charles Kingsley
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• "By cultivating an interest in a few good books which contain the result of the toil or the quintessence of the genius of some of the most gifted thinkers of the world, we need not live on the marsh and in the mists. The slopes and ridges invite us."
  By: Thomas Starr King
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• "Everywhere I have sought rest and found it not except sitting apart in a nook with a little book. [Lat., In omnibus requiem quaesivi Et non inveni Nisi seorsim sedans In angulo cum libello.]"
  By: Thomas a Kempis, De Imitatione Christi, written in an autographed copy according to Cornelius A. Lapide
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• "A book should be an ice-axe to break the frozen sea within us."
  By: Franz Kafka
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