Books Quotes

• "Homeliness is almost as great a merit in a book as in a house, if the reader would abide there. It is next to beauty, and a very high art."
  By: Henry David Thoreau
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• "Books that are books are all that you want, and there are but half a dozen in any thousand."
  By: Henry David Thoreau
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• "Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside."
  By: Henry David Thoreau, in a letter to B.B. Wiley, April 26, 1857
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• "If the secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader."
  By: William Makepeace Thackeray
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• "Books have their own destiny. [Lat., Habent sua fata libelli.]"
  By: Maurus Terentianus, Poetics
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• "But every page having an ample marge, And every marge enclosing in the midst A square of text that looks a little blot."
  By: Lord Alfred Tennyson, Idylls of the King--Merlin and Vivien (l. 669)
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• "Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they passed."
  By: Sir William Temple, Ancient and Modern Learning
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• "Aquinas was once asked, with what compendium a man might become learned? He answered "By reading of one book.""
  By: Jeremy Taylor, Life of Christ (pt. II, s. XII, 16)
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• "Not many but good books."
  By: Bayard Taylor
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• "Books, the children of the brain."
  By: Jonathan Swift, A Tale of a Tub (sec. I)
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• "Every book is, in an intimate sense, a circular-letter to the friends of him who writes it."
  By: Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK
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• "Knowledge of books is like that sort of lantern which hides him who carries it, and serves only to pass through secret and gloomy paths of his own; but in the possession of a man of business it is as a torch in the hand of one who is willing and able to show those who are bewildered the way which leads to their prosperity and welfare."
  By: Sir Richard Steele
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• "When St. Thomas Aquinas was asked in what manner a man might best become learned, he answered, "By reading one book." The homo unius libri is indeed proverbially formidable to all conversational figurantes."
  By: Robert Southey, The Doctor (p. 164)
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• "Go, little Book! From this my solitude I cast thee on the Waters,--go thy ways: And if, as I believe, thy vein be good, The World will find thee after many days. Be it with thee according to thy worth: Go, little Book; in faith I send thee forth."
  By: Robert Southey, Lay of the Laureate--L'Envoy
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• "Give me a room whose every nook is dedicated to a book."
  By: Robert Southey
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• "A best seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent."
  By: Logan Pearsall Smith
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