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Letter "B" » Books
«Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.»
Author: Barbara W. Tuchman
| About:
Books,
History,
Literature
| Keywords:
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«Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. They are engines of change, windows on the world, lighthouses erected in the sea of time.»
Author: Barbara W. Tuchman
| About:
Books,
Literature
| Keywords:
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«Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.»
«Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.»
Author: James Russell Lowell
(Critic, Diplomat, Editor, Essayist, Poet)
| About:
Books
| Keywords:
bees, pollen, quickening, quickens, The Quickening
«Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors that they are ready to repeat their lessons as often as we please»
Author: Robert Chambers
| About:
Books
| Keywords:
counselors, disinterested, instructors, lessons, oral, preachers
«Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.»
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
| About:
Books
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beautifully, furnished with, furnishes, furnishing, furniture
«Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them»
«Books are the curse of the human race»
«Books are not men and yet they stay alive.»
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
| About:
Books
«Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Books
| Keywords:
abused, Among the, attraction, clean, clean out, good-for-nothing, had better, inspire, of my own, orbit, orbits, satellite, satellites, The Attractions, warped, warping
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