Books Quotes

• "A book should be an ice-axe to break the frozen sea within us."
  By: Franz Kafka
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• "The doings of men, their prayers, fear, wrath, pleasure, delights, and recreations, are the subject of this book. [Lat., Quicquid agunt homines, votum, timor, ira, voluptas, gaudia, discursus, nostri est farrago libelli.]"
  By: Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal), Satires (I, I, 85)
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• "Those who are conversant with books well know how often they mislead us when we have not a living monitor at hand to assist us in comparing practice with theory."
  By: Junius (pseudonym, possibly of Sir Philip Francis)
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• "There are persons who flatter themselves that the size of their works will make them immortal. They pile up reluctant quarto upon solid folio, as if their labors, because they are gigantic, could contend with truth and heaven!"
  By: Junius (pseudonym, possibly of Sir Philip Francis)
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• "There was a time when the world acted upon books. Now books act upon the world."
  By: Joseph Joubert
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• "The great objection to new books is that they prevent our reading old ones."
  By: Joseph Joubert
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• "How many books there are whose reputation is made that would not obtain it were it now to make?"
  By: Joseph Joubert
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• "Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace: Robes loosely flowing, hair as free; Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art; They strike mine eyes, but not my heart."
  By: Ben Jonson, Silent Woman (act I, sc. 1)
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• "Blest be the hour wherein I bought this book; His studies happy that composed the book, And the man fortunate that sold the book."
  By: Ben Jonson, Every Man Out of his Humour (act I, sc. 1)
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• "When I would know thee . . . my thought looks Upon thy well-made choice of friends and books; Then do I love thee, and behold thy ends In making thy friends books, and thy books friends."
  By: Ben Jonson, Epigram (86)
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• "Pray thee, take care, that tak'st my book in hand, To read it well; that is to understand."
  By: Ben Jonson, Epigram (1)
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• "Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction."
  By: Ben Jonson
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• "Books that you may carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are the most useful after all."
  By: Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature"), Johnsoniana
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• "There is no book so poor that it would not be a prodigy if wholly made by a single man."
  By: Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature")
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• "No man should consider so highly of himself as to think he can receive but little light from books, nor so meanly as to believe he can discover nothing but what is to be learned from them."
  By: Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature")
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• "Books, to judicious compilers, are useful,--to particular arts and professions absolutely necessary,--to men of real science they are tools; but more are tools to them."
  By: Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature")
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