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There is no Past, so long as Books shall live!
There is no Past, so long as Books shall live!
Books are a finer world within the world.
Books are a finer world within the world.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
In you are sent
The types of Truths whose life is The To Come;
In you soars read more
In you are sent
The types of Truths whose life is The To Come;
In you soars up the Adam from the fall;
In you the Future as the Past is given--
Ev'n in our death ye bid us hail our birth;--
Unfold these pages, and behold the Heaven,
Without one grave-stone left upon the Earth.
This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
You, O Books, are the golden vessels of the temple, the arms of
the clerical militia with which the read more
You, O Books, are the golden vessels of the temple, the arms of
the clerical militia with which the missiles of the most wicked
are destroyed; fruitful olives, vines of Engaddi, fig-trees
knowing no sterility; burning lamps to be ever held in the hand.
I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.
I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.
