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Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.

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Books are immortal sons deifying their sires.

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We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.

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And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.

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One can never read too little of bad, or too much of good books: bad books are intellectual poison; they destroy the mind. In order to read what is good one must make it a condition never to read what is bad; for life is short, and both time and strength limited.

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Proverbs, like the sacred books of each nation, are the sanctuary of the intuitions. That which the droning world, chained to appearances, will not allow the realist to say in his own words, it will suffer him to say in proverbs without contradiction.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Book Quotes , Intuition Quotes

Television viewing has become for me a completely different experience, because I don't watch shows on a weekly basis. I wait until the DVD or I TiVo everything and wait until the end of a season and watch it all over a weekend. For me that's a really satisfying experience, like reading a book.

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It is true that the discerning intellect of the world is always much in advance of the creative, so that there are competent judges of the best book, and few writers of the best books.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Book Quotes , Judging Quotes

There is a secret and wholesome conviction in the heart of every man or woman who has written a book that it should be no easy matter for an intelligent reader to lay down that book unfinished. There is a pardonable impression among reviewers that half an hour in its company is sufficient.

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Tags : Agnes Repplier Quotes , Book Quotes , Heart Quotes

I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous: and it did not get into print until, fifty years later; publishers would publish anything that had my name on it.

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Books are for nothing but to inspire

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The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.

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Tags : Walt Whitman Quotes , Book Quotes , Reading Quotes

There are some books that refuse to be written. They stand their ground year after year and will not be persuaded. It isn't because the book is not there and worth being written -- it is only because the right form of the story does not present itself. There is only one right form for a story and if you fail to find that form the story will not tell itself.

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If AIG had tried to unwind their derivatives books. I don't know. It would have hit every institution in the world.

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I left the fairy tales lying on the floor of the nursery, and I have not found any books so sensible since.

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A book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it.

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A library is a place where you learn what teachers were afraid to teach you.

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I maintain that any writer of a book is fully authorised in attaching any meaning he likes to a word or phrase he intends to use. If I find an author saying, at the beginning of his book, "Let it be understood that by the word 'black' I shall always mean 'white,' and by the word 'white' I shall always mean 'black,'" I meekly accept his ruling, however injudicious I think it.

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In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Book Quotes , Civilization Quotes

The approach to the offices of Girdlestone and Co. was not a very dignified one, nor would the uninitiated who traversed it form any conception of the commercial prosperity of the firm in question.

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