Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes, Wall Quotes, Book Quotes

The student has his Rome, his Florence, his whole glowing Italy, within the four walls of his library. He has in his books the ruins of an antique world and the glories of a modern one.

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Some books seem like a key to unfamiliar rooms in one’s own castle.

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The book of Job is pure Arab poetry of the highest and most antique cast.

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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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Oh, and I have to mention one lady who does all of my book covers in cross stitch and frames them. Muriel. She's amazing. I just received one for my latest, Love And Dr Devon, actually. It's very sweet of her to do it.

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To travel far, there is no better ship than a book.

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Oh God! that one might read the book of fate, And see the revolution of the times Make mountains level, and the continent, Weary of solid firmness, melt itself Into the sea.

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Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a personality which, by birth and quality, is pledged to the doctrines there set forth, and which exists to see and state things so, and not otherwise.

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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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We criticize a man or a book most sharply when we sketch out their ideal.

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I want to be a writer, not an engineer who writes books.

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In reading some books we occupy ourselves chiefly with the thoughts of the author; in perusing others, exclusively with our own.

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It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book. When I start writing, I do two pages a day; if I'm gonna do 320, that's 160 days.

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The enormous multiplication of books in every branch of knowledge is one of the greatest evils of this age, since it presents one of the most serious obstacles to the acquisition of correct information by throwing in the reader's way piles of lumber in which he must painfully grope for the scraps of useful matter, peradventure interspersed.

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Love's mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.

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I'll be supposed upon a book, his face is the worst thing about him.

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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries

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A book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents.

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There is no luck in literary reputation. They who make up the final verdict upon every book are not the partial and noisy readers of the hour when it appears; but a court as of angels, a public not to be bribed, not to be entreated, and not to be overawed, decides upon every man's title to fame.

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Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives, Live regist'red upon our brazen tombs And then grace us in the disgrace of death; When, spite of cormorant devouring Time, Th' endeavor of this present breath may buy That honor which shall bate his scythe's keen edge And make us heirs of all eternity.

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