Library Quotes

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Library Quotes

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I need only three things in life books, books
and books

• - Leo Tolstoy

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Books are the lighthouses erected in the great
sea of time.
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A room without books is a body without a soul
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That is a good book which is opened with
expectation and closed in profit.
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Books are the treasured wealth of the world, the
fit inheritance of generations and nations -
Thoreau
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Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the
body
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Next to acquiring good friends, the best
acquisition is that of good books - Colton
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Some books are to be tasted, others to be
swallowed and some few to be chewed and
digested. - Bacon
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No entertainment is so cheap as reading and none
so lasting - Lady Montague
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Books are men of higher stature The only men
that speak aloud For future time to hear. - E S
Barret
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Books are but waste paper Unless we spend in
action the wisdom we get from thought - Bulwer
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Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect
to our mind the minds of sages and heroes -
Gibbon
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Books are the legacies that a great genius
leaves to mankind, which are delivered down
from generation, as presents to the posterity of
those who are yet unborn. - Joseph Addison
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Books are embalmed minds - Bovee
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The books which help you most are those which
make you think most. - Theodore Parker
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Show me the books he loves And I shall know the
man for better than through mortal friends - S
Weir Mitchell
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To read a book for the first time is to make an
acquaintance with a new friend to read it for a
second time is to meet an old one. Anonymous,
Chinese saying
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A good library is a place, a palace where the
lofty spirits of all nations and generations
meet. Samuel NIGER (1883-1956)
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"To read is to empower  To empower is to write 
To write is to influence  To Influence is to
change  To change is to live."  Jane
Evershed
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"The greatest gift is the passion for reading.
It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it
excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and
experience of a wide kind. It is a moral
illumination." Elizabeth Hardwick 
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A house without books is like a room without
windows. No man has a right to bring up children
without surrounding them with books.... Children
learn to read being in the presence of books.
Horace MANN (1796-1859)
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People will not be better than the books they
read.- Bishop Potter
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One sure window into a person's soul is his
reading list.- Mary B. W. Tabor
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• The reading of all good books is like
  conversation with the finest men of past
  centuries.- Descartes

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• Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of
  time. - Edwin P. Whipple

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• To add a library to a house is to give that house
  a soul.- Cicero

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Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and
wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity,
lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold,
light nor dark. The pleasure they give is
steady, unorgastic, reliable, deep and
long-lasting. Germaine Greer
(1939-____)
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The only true equalisers in the world are books
the only treasure-house open to all comers is a
library the only wealth which will not decay is
knowledge the only jewel which you can carry
beyond the grave is wisdom.- J. A. Langford
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