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Book Quotes by Thomas Carlyle
- What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection…
- All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.
- The true university of these days is a collection of books.
- If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts; all art and author-craft are of small amount to that.
- Books are a triviality. Life alone is great.
- No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in a true work…
- Happy the people whose annals are blank in the history books!
- Biography is the most universally pleasant and profitable of all reading.
- No good book, or good thing of any sort, shows its best face at first.
- My books are friends that never fail me.
- The wise man is but a clever infant, spelling letters from a hieroglyphical prophetic book, the lexicon of which lies in eternity.
- I call the book of Job, apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with the pen.
- The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity.
- May blessings be upon the head of Cadmus, the Phoenicians, or whoever it was that invented books.
- A good book is the purest essence of a human soul.
- In books lies the soul fo the whole past time.
- In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it…
- If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.
- Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call…
- If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.
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