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Books 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.
- Books are a triviality. Life alone is great.
- Happy the people whose annals are blank in the history books!
- My books are friends that never fail me.
- May blessings be upon the head of Cadmus, the Phoenicians, or whoever it was that invented books.
- 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…
- 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…
- In books lies the soul of the whole past time.
- What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of…
- Happy the people whose annals are blank in history books.
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