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Famous Quotes about Books
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Meaningful Quotes about Books
When friends grow cold, and the converse of
intimates languishes into vapid civility and commonplace, books only
continue the unaltered countenance of happier days, and cheer us with
that true friendship which never deceived hope nor deserted
sorrow.—Washington Irving.
No book can be so good as to be profitable when negligently
read.—Seneca.
He who loves not books before he comes to thirty years of age, will
hardly love them enough afterward to understand them.—Clarendon.
I like books. I was born and bred among them, and have the easy feeling,
when I get in their presence, that a stable-boy has among horses.—O.W.
Holmes.
Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their
feelings—as some savage tribes determine the power of muskets by their
recoil; that being considered best which fairly prostrates the
purchaser.—Longfellow.
Nothing can supply the place of books. They are cheering or soothing
companions in solitude, illness, affliction. The wealth of both
continents would not compensate for the good they impart.—Channing.
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.
—Dr. Dodd.
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.—La Bruyère.
Books are a guide in youth, and an entertainment for age. They support
us under solitude, and keep us from becoming a burden to ourselves. They
help us to forget the crossness of men and things, compose our cares and
our passions, and lay our disappointments asleep. When we are weary of
the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness,
pride or design in their conversation.—Jeremy Collier.
He that studies books alone, will know how things ought to be; and he
that studies men will know how things are.—Colton.
It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part; the
rest are confounded with the multitude.—Voltaire.
Good books are to the young mind what the warming sun and the refreshing
rain of spring are to the seeds which have lain dormant in the frosts of
winter. They are more, for they may save from that which is worse than
death, as well as bless with that which is better than life.—Horace
Mann.
Thou mayst as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by
always reading. Too much overcharges nature, and turns more into disease
than nourishment. 'Tis thought and digestion which makes books
serviceable, and gives health and vigor to the mind.—Fuller.
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