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As good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature God's image but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself kills the image of God as it were in the eye.
John Milton
Camerado this is no book. Who touches this touches a man.
Walt Whitman
The writings of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
Walter Savage Landor
My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time with my eyes hanging out.
Dylan Thomas
What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us!
James Russell Lowell
Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is there reading makes it more.
John Harington
Books think for me.
Charles Lamb
A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
John Milton
Properly we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
Ezra Pound
Literature is news that stays news.
Ezra Pound
The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.
Jean Cocteau
What is reading but silent conversation?
Walter Savage Landor
The central theme of the novel is that they were glad to see each other.
Gertrude Stein
Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.
Kathleen Norris
Some books are undeservedly forgotten none are undeservedly remembered.
W.H. Auden
Luck affects everything. Let your hook be always cast. In the stream where you least expect it there will be fish.
Ovid
Fortune sides with him who dares.
Virgil
If any thing is sacred the human body is sacred.
Walt Whitman
A stout heart breaks bad luck.
Miguel de Cervantes
Here we have a baby. It is composed of a bald head and a pair of lungs.
Eugene Field
Middle age is when you have met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else and usually is.
Ogden Nash
Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.
Franklin Pierce Adams
The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always asked to do things and you are not yet decrepit enough to turn them down.
T.S Eliot
Where unwilling dies the rose Buds the new another year.
Dorothy Parker
Some are born to sweet delight Some are born to endless night.
William Blake
Ring out the old ring in the new Ring happy bells across the snow.
Lord Alfred Tennyson
When I was born I did lament and cry And now each day doth shew the reason why.
Richard Watkyns
And the Raven never flitting Still is sitting still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas Just above my chamber door And his eyes have all the seeming Of a demon's that is dreaming And the lamplight o'er him streaming Throws his shadow on the floor And my soul from out that shadow That lies floating on the floor Shall be lifted - nevermore.
Edgar Allan Poe
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
Miguel de Cervantes
In my beginning is my end.
T.S Eliot
One anecdote of a man is worth a volume of biography.
William Ellery Channing
O thrush your song is passing sweet But never a song that you have sung Is half so sweet as thrushes sang When my dear love and I were young.
William Morris
She deceiving I believing What need lovers wish for more?
Sir Charles Sedley
How delicious is the winning of a kiss at love's beginning.
Thomas Campbell
Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs Being purged a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes Being vex'd a sea nourish'd with lovers' tears: What is it else? a madness most discreet A choking gall and a preserving sweet.
William Shakespeare
Those evening bells! those evening bells! How many a tale their music tells!
George Moore
Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.
Dorothy Parker
What is irritating about love is that it is a crime that requires an accomplice.
Charles Baudelaire
Love is. the flower of life and blossoms unexpectedly and without law and must be plucked where it is found and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
D.H. Lawrence
He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
Walter Scott
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
Kahlil Gibran
Beauty is truth truth beauty.
John Keats
Set a beggar on horseback and he will ride a gallop.
Henry Burton
Well begun is half done.
Horace
In bed we laugh in bed we cry And born in bed in bed we die The near approach a bed may show Of human bliss to human woe.
Isaac De Benserade
Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
Jean de La Fontaine
She walks in beauty like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes: Thus mellowed to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
Lord Byron
Beauty is truth - truth beauty - that is all Ye know on earth and all ye need to know.
John Keats
The excellence of every art is its intensity capable of making all disagreeables evaporate from their being in close relationship with beauty and truth.
John Keats
Beauty more than bitterness Makes the heart break.
Sara Teasdale
The fountain of beauty is the heart and every generous thought illustrates the walls of your chamber.
Francis Quarles
Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time.
Marianne Moore
Let the beauty you love be what you do. There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the earth.
Rumi
As a beauty I am not a star There are others more handsome by far But my face - I don't mind it For I am behind it. It's the people in front get the jar.
Anthony Euwer
Underneath this stone doth lie As much beauty as could die.
Ben Jonson
Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable what it is or what it means can never be said.
George Santayana
Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.
Michelangelo
And all the loveliest things there be Come simply so it seems to me.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Sweetest li'l feller everybody knows Dunno what to call him but he's mighty lak' a rose Lookin' at his mammy wid eyes so shiny blue Mek' you think that Heav'n is comin' clost ter you.
Frank L. Stanton
By night an atheist half believes in God.
Edward Young
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