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A great library contains the diary of the human race.
A great library contains the diary of the human race.
The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so read more
The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed.
It is a vanity to persuade the world one hath much learning, by
getting a great library.
It is a vanity to persuade the world one hath much learning, by
getting a great library.
All round the room my silent servants wait,
My friends in every season, bright and dim.
All round the room my silent servants wait,
My friends in every season, bright and dim.
A library is but the soul's burial-ground. It is the land of
shadows.
A library is but the soul's burial-ground. It is the land of
shadows.
Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future
Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future
Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were
only the history of pinheads.
Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were
only the history of pinheads.
That place that does contain
My books, the best companions, is to me
A glorious court, where read more
That place that does contain
My books, the best companions, is to me
A glorious court, where hourly I converse
With the old sages and philosophers;
And sometimes, for variety, I confer
With kings and emperors, and weigh their counsels;
Calling their victories, if unjustly got,
Unto a strict account, and, in my fancy,
Deface their ill-placed statues.
To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.
To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.
