Did not the souls also of the righteous ask question of these things in their chambers, saying, "How long shall I hope on this fashion?" when cometh the fruit of the floor of our reward?
If I have found favor in thy sight, and if it be possible, and if I be meet therefore, shew me then whether there be more to come than is past, or more past than is to come.
There is nothing hidden in the hidden time. Know that this, the hidden time, is your everlasting, and live.
The greatest violence, and the greatest threat to humanity, is the growth of MONEY.
All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
Purity. Serenity... Solitude: What you ought to uphold. But the important thing is whether you believe it.
All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
Patience! It is not how quickly you run, but how slowly.
The acquisition of a book signalled not just the potential acquisition of knowledge but also something like the property rights to a piece of ground: the knowledge became a visitable place.
A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relis...
I can escape to the blissful realms between the pages of books.
A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.
One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
She'd always been a little excitable, a little more passionate about books than your average person, but she was supposed to be -- she was a librarian, after all.
Tell me I didn't imagine it, Leo. Tell me that even though our bodies were in seperate states, our star selves shared an enchanted place. Tell me that right around noon today (eastern time) you had th...
Success is no proof of virtue. In the case of a book, quick acclaim is presumptive evidence of a lack of substance and originality.
Books are a finer world within the world. (1863)
Books and movies, they are not mere entertainment. They sustain me and help me cope with my real life.
If the college you visit has a bookstore filled with t-shirts rather than books, find another college.
We do not belong to those who have ideas only among books, when stimulated by books. It is our habit to think outdoors - walking, leaping, climbing, dancing, preferably on lonely mountains or near the...
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