Category Archives: Book quotes

Priorities

Posted on October 13, 2020 by admin

“When I have money, I buy food and books. When I do not, I buy books.” – Erasmus

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Minds alive on shelves

Posted on October 12, 2020 by admin

“These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. From each of them goes out its own voice, as inaudible as the streams of sound conveyed by electric waves beyond the range of our hearing; … Continue reading →

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Where else but in a library?

Posted on April 17, 2020 by admin

“But in a library, you can count yourself as king of infinite space. You can find a spell for the refreshment of the spirit in every story you read, and every story can be something you live. There’s one sense … Continue reading →

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Does your church have a library?

Posted on May 20, 2018 by admin

Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 is frequently taken as a warning about censorship, yet Bradbury’s chief concern was far more profound than the banning of books. On his own account, Bradbury set out to protest a culture in which people prefer … Continue reading →

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Love books! – with wisdom

Posted on May 19, 2018 by admin

Around 2000 B.C. an Egyptian priest counseled his son: “Behold, nothing surpasses books. Would that I might make you love books more than your mother. Would that I might make their beauty enter before your face, for it is greater … Continue reading →

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The student’s dilemma

Posted on May 19, 2018 by admin

“Learn everything. Afterward you will discover that nothing has been superfluous.” Hugh of St. Victor, 12th century

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Old friends

Posted on May 19, 2018 by admin

“The familiar faces of my books welcomed me. I threw myself into my reading chair and gazed around me with pleasure. All my old friends present—there in spirit, ready to talk with me any moment when I was in the … Continue reading →

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Kempis on rest

Posted on May 19, 2018 by admin

“I have sought after rest in everything; and found it nowhere except in a corner with a book.” Thomas à Kempis

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A graduate student’s motto

Posted on May 19, 2018 by admin

“Never lend books; people never return them. The only books I have in my library are books I have borrowed from others.” Anatole France.

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Thoreau on reading

Posted on May 19, 2018 by admin

“How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book!” Henry David Thoreau

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