Swami Vivekananda Quotes, Rain Quotes, Book Quotes

Books are good but they are only maps. Reading a book by direction of a man I read that so many inches of rain fell during the year. Then he told me to take the book and squeeze it between my hands. I did so and not a drop of water came from it. It was the idea only that the book conveyed. So we can get good from books, from the temple, from the church, from anything, so long as it leads us onward and upward.

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So here I sit in the early candle-light of old age-I and my book-casting backward glances over out travel'd road.

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Tags : Walt Whitman Quotes , Book Quotes , Light Quotes

...The God I know is one that promotes peace and freedom. But I get great sustenance from my personal relationship. That doesn't make me think I'm a better person than you are, by the way. Because one of the great admonitions in the Good Book is, don't try to take a speck out of your eye if I've got a log in my own.

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The Mirror Empire is the most original fantasy I've read in a long time, set in a world full of new ideas, expanding the horizons of the genre. A complex and intricate book full of elegant ideas and finely-drawn characters.

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Tags : Adrian Tchaikovsky Quotes , Book Quotes , Character Quotes

It seems to me that to take a book of mine into his hands is one of the rarest distinctions that anyone can confer upon himself. I even assume that he removes his shoes when he does so-not to speak of boots.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Book Quotes , Hands Quotes

Every word we speak is million-faced or convertible to an indefinite number of applications. If it were not so we could read no book. Your remark would only fit your case, not mine.

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Very young children eat their books, literally devouring their contents. This is one reason for the scarcity of first editions of Alice in Wonderland and other favorites of the nursery.

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I think being an only child created in me a degree of self-reliance, which I'm glad of. It made me perfectly happy with my own company and perhaps was good conditioning for the protracted solitude of writing books as slowly as I do.

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A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.

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... I have read in your face, as plain as if it was a book, that but for some trouble and sorrow we should never know half the good there is about us.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Book Quotes

I'm not a great shopper but I do buy a lot of books. I'm the publishers' friend - I buy a hundred books a year and read four.

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I read my own books sometimes to cheer me when it is hard to write, and then I remember that it was always difficult, and how nearly impossible it was sometimes.

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There are many virtues in books, but the essential value is the adding of knowledge to our stock by the record of new facts, and, better, by the record of intuitions which distribute facts, and are the formulas which supersede all histories.

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The full truth of this odd matter is what the world has long been looking for and the public curiosity is sure to welcome.

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Tags : Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes , Book Quotes , Long Quotes

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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One Best Book is Equal To Hundred Good Friends But One Good Friend is Equal To A Library.

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A capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

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St Thomas (Aqinas) loved books and lived on books... When asked for what he thanked God most, he answered simply, ‘I have understood every page I ever read’.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Book Quotes , Pages Quotes

Preposition: An enormously versatile part of grammar, as in 'What made you pick this book I didn't want to be read to out of up for?'

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Book Quotes , Want Quotes