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If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in a library.
If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in a library.
A library implies an act of faith
A library implies an act of faith
Thou can'st not die. Here thou art more than safe
Where every book is thy epitaph.
Thou can'st not die. Here thou art more than safe
Where every book is thy epitaph.
The first thing naturally when one enters a scholar's study or
library, is to look at his books. One read more
The first thing naturally when one enters a scholar's study or
library, is to look at his books. One gets a notion very
speedily of his tastes and the range of his pursuits by a glance
round his book-shelves.
Some book there is that she desires to see.
Which is it, girl, of these? Open them, boy.
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Some book there is that she desires to see.
Which is it, girl, of these? Open them, boy.
But thou art deeper read and better skilled:
Come and take choice of all my library,
And so beguile thy sorrow, till the heavens
Reveal the damned contriver of this deed.
"A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life."
"A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life."
Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.
Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.
The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.
The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.
To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.
To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.