Books Quotes

• "There are many virtues in books, but the essential value is the adding of knowledge to our stock by the record of new facts, and, better, by the record of intuitions which distribute facts, and are the formulas which supersede all histories."
  By: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims--Persian Poetry
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• "Books are the best things, well used: abused, among the worst."
  By: Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Scholar
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• "The virtue of books is to be readable."
  By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• "In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight."
  By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• "Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests and mines and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors."
  By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• "Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst. What is the right use? What is the one end, which all means go to effect? They are for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system."
  By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• "Wise books for half the truths they hold are honored tombs."
  By: George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross)
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• "Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who read too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking."
  By: Albert Einstein
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• "Men love better books which please them than those which instruct. Since their ennui troubles them more than their ignorance, they prefer being amused to being informed."
  By: Abbe Jean-Antoine Dubois
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• "Reading one book is like eating one crisp."
  By: Diane Duane, So You Want to Be a Wizard
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• "The spectacles of books."
  By: John Dryden, Essay on Dramatic Poetry
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• "Books, dear books Have been, and are my comforts; morn and night, Adversity, prosperity, at home, Abroad, health, sickness--good or ill report, The same firm friends; the same refreshment rich, And source of consolation."
  By: William Dodd, Thoughts in Prison, Third Week
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• "Not as ours the books of old-- Things that steam can stamp and fold; Not as ours the books of yore-- Rows of type, and nothing more."
  By: Henry Austin Dobson, To a Missal of the 13th Century
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• "Golden volumes! richest treasures, Objects of delicious pleasures! You my eyes rejoicing please, You my hand in rapture seize! Brilliant wits and musing sages, Lights who beam'd through many ages! Left to your conscious leaves their story, And dared to trust you with their glory; And now their hope of fame achiev'd, Dear volumes! you have not deceived!"
  By: Isaac D'Israeli, Curiosities of Literature--Libraries
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• "Beware of the man of one book. [Lat., Home unius libri, or, cave ab homine unius libri.]"
  By: Isaac D'Israeli, quoted in "Curiosities of Literature"
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• "A book may be as great a thing as a battle."
  By: Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield
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