John Donne Quotes, Book Quotes, Desire Quotes

He that desires to print a book, should much more desire, to be a book.

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I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.

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I don't choose. Normally it's the book that chooses me.

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Poetry makes its own pertinence, and a single stanza outweighs a book of prose.

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All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated....As therefore the bell that rings to a sermon, calls not upon the preacher only, but upon the congregation to come: so this bell calls us all....No man is an island, entire of itself...any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

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Are you unselfish? That is the question. If you are, you will be perfect without reading a single religious book, without going into a single church or temple.

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Books will speak plain when counselors blanch.

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When a library expels a book of mine and leaves an unexpurgated Bible lying around where unprotected youth and age can get hold of it, the deep unconscious irony of it delights me and doesn't anger me.

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Rough board shelves hold a number of books, without which some of the evenings would be long indeed.

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Anyone who has got a book collection/library and a garden wants for nothing.

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I am a person that is very curious about what is going on in the world and there are a lot of subjects to write about, you meet a lot of interesting people. But one idea will be there and it will show up without any logic. It is a book that has been written in my heart before it is written into sentences.

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A breeze discovered my open book And began to flutter the leaves to look

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He who knows does not speak. He who speaks does not know.

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As I stood outside in Cow Lane, it occurred to me that Heaven must be a place where the library is open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. No ... eight days a week.

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There is not on the face of the earth-after the Book of Allah - a book which is more sahih than the book of Malik.

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Great old books of the great old authors are not in everybody's reach; and though it is better to know them thoroughly than to know them only here and there, yet it is a good work to give a little to those who have neither time nor means to get his own belief.

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Love likes to extend itself. If you receive it in a book - or however you get it - then your duty is to extend it beyond.

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I was born under the Blue Ridge, and under that side which is blue in the evening light, in a wild land of game and forest and rushing waters.

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Like most uneducated Englishwomen, I like reading--I like reading books in the bulk.

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I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man. All the good from The Savior of the world is communicated to us through this Book.

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