Francis Bacon Quotes, Book Quotes, Thinking Quotes

Let no one think or maintain that a person can search too far or be too well studied in either the book of God's word or the book of God's works.

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The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life - and one is as good as another.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Book Quotes , Writing Quotes

I don't write books inadvertently.

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My rage is gone, And I am struck with sorrow. Take him up. Help, three o' th' chiefest soldiers; I'll be one. Beat thou the drum, that it speaks mournfully, Trail your steel spikes. Though in this city he Hath widowed and unchilded many a one, Which to this hour bewail the injury, Yet he shall have a noble memory. Assist.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Memories Quotes , Book Quotes

I don't know if the books are making the world a much better place. I don't write with that objective. What I know is that I see my readers creating a critical mass so we can at least understand this world in a different way.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Book Quotes , Writing Quotes

Ordinary people simply don't know what books mean to us, shut up here. Reading, learning, and the radio are our amusements.

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Tags : Anne Frank Quotes , Book Quotes , Reading Quotes

... 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

Books are for nothing but to inspire

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

An extraterrestrial being, newly arrived on Earth - scrutinizing what we mainly present to our children in television, radio, movies, newspapers, magazines, the comics, and many books - might easily conclude that we are intent on teaching them murder, rape, cruelty, superstition, credulity, and consumerism. We keep at it, and through constant repetition many of them finally get it.

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Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Children Quotes , Book Quotes

I don't spend much on clothes. I buy old books. I tell myself I ought to save - it's the classic Northern work ethic. I like good holidays, though. I'm a big fan of cruises. I love unpacking once and having the scenery change every day.

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Tags : Alan Titchmarsh Quotes , Book Quotes , Holiday Quotes

Come indoors then, and open the books on your library shelves. For you have a library and a good one. A working library, a living library; a library where nothing is chained down and nothing is locked up; a library where the songs of the singers rise naturally from the lives of the livers.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Song Quotes , Book Quotes

But there is in everything a reasonable division of labour. I have written the book, and nothing on earth would induce me to read it.

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

Heroine: girl who is perfectly charming to live with, in a book.

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But every page having an ample marge, And every marge enclosing in the midst A square of text that looks a little blot.

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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Book Quotes , Squares Quotes

Books, in all their variety, offer the human intellect the means whereby civilisation may be carried triumphantly forward.

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Deliberately or not, every author is of course present in every book he or she writes - even in a scientific text.

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Tags : Abraham Pais Quotes , Book Quotes , Writing Quotes

The Lord who gave us Earth and Heaven Takes that as thanks for all He's given. The book he lent is given back All blotted red and smutted black.

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Tags : John Masefield Quotes , God Quotes , Book Quotes

Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Book Quotes , Healing Quotes

To stand in a great bookshop crammed with books so new that their pages almost stick together, and the gilt on their backs is still fresh, has an excitement no less delightful than the old excitement of the second-hand bookstall.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Book Quotes , Hands Quotes

The great bell of Beaulieu was ringing. Far away through the forest might be heard its musical clangor and swell.

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Tags : Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes , Book Quotes , Musical Quotes