Books Quotes

• "'Tis in books the chief Of all perfections to be plain and brief."
  By: Samuel Butler (1)
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• "There is a kind of physiognomy in the titles of books no less than in the faces of men, by which a skilful observer will as well know what to expect from the one as the other."
  By: Samuel Butler (1)
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• "Some books are lies frae end to end."
  By: Robert Burns, Death and Dr. Hornbook
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• "Nothing ought to be more weighed than the nature of books recommended by public authority. So recommended, they soon form the character of the age."
  By: Edmund Burke
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• "Go now, my little book, to every place Where my first pilgrim has but shown his face. Call at their door: if any way "Who's there?" Then answer thou "Christiana is here.""
  By: John Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress (pt. II)
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• "Some said, John, print it, others said, Not so; Some said, It might do good, others said, No."
  By: John Bunyan, Apology for his Book (l. 39)
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• "In you are sent The types of Truths whose life is The To Come; In you soars up the Adam from the fall; In you the Future as the Past is given-- Ev'n in our death ye bid us hail our birth;-- Unfold these pages, and behold the Heaven, Without one grave-stone left upon the Earth."
  By: Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, The Souls of Books (st. 5, l. 11)
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• "All books grow homilies by time; they are Temples, at once, and Landmarks."
  By: Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, The Souls of Books (st. 4, l. 1)
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• "The Wise (Minstrel or Sage,) out of their books are clay; But in their books, as from their graves they rise. Angels--that, side by side, upon our way, Walk with and warn us!"
  By: Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, The Souls of Books (st. 3, l. 9)
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• "We call some books immortal! Do they live? If so, believe me, Time hath made them pure. In Books, the veriest wicked rest in peace."
  By: Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, The Souls of Books (st. 3, l. 22)
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• "Hark, the world so loud, And they, the movers of the world, so still!"
  By: Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, The Souls of Books (st. 3, l. 14)
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• "The past but lives in words; a thousand ages were blank if books had not evoked their ghosts, and kept the pale, unbodied shades to warn us from fleshless lips."
  By: Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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• "Law dies, books never."
  By: Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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• "There is this value in books, that they enable us to converse with the dead. There is something in this beyond the mere intrinsic worth of what they have left us."
  By: Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges
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• "Books, books, books! I had found the secret of a garret room Piled high with cases in my father's name; Piled high, packed large,--where, creeping in and out Among the giant fossils of my past, Like some small nimble mouse between the ribs Of a mastodon, I nibbled here and there At this or that box, pulling through the gap, In heats of terror, haste, victorious joy, The first book first. And how I felt it beat Under my pillow, in the morning's dark, An hour before the sun would let me read! My books! At last, because the time was ripe, I chanced upon the poets."
  By: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh (bk. I, l. 830)
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• "We get no good By being ungenerous, even to a book, And calculating profits--so much help By so much reading. It is rather when We gloriously forget ourselves, and plunge Soul-forward, headlong, into a book's profound, Impassioned for its beauty, and salt of truth-- 'Tis then we get the right good from a book."
  By: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh (bk. I, l. 700)
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