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Library Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given, forgetful that…
- Be a little careful about your library. Do you foresee what you will do with it? Very little to be sure. But the real question…
- Consider what you have in the smallest well-chosen library-a company of the wisest and wittiest men which can be plucked out of all civilized countries…
- The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed.
- Meek young men grow up in libraries.
- Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil…
- He needs no library, for he has not done thinking; no church, for he is himself a prophet; no statute book, for he hath the…
- Solitary converse with nature; for thence are ejaculated sweet and dreadful words never uttered in libraries. Ah! the spring days, the summer dawns, and October…
- In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends imprisoned by an enchanter in paper and leathern boxes.
- A man's library is a sort of harem.
- It happens to us once or twice in a lifetime to be drunk with some book which probably has some extraordinary relative power to intoxicate…
- But there is no end to the praise of books, to the value of the library. Who shall estimate their influence on our population where…
- Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library: a company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil…
More Library Quotes
- When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society… — Isaac Asimov
- London has fine museums, the British Library is one of the greatest library institutions in the world... It's got everything you want,… — David Attenborough
- Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in… — Margaret Atwood
- It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all… — James A. Baldwin
- The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry. — Lynda Barry
- A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life. — Henry Ward Beecher
- That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library. — Aphra Behn
- People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned. — Saul Bellow
- If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library. — Tony Benn
- Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe. — Josh Billings
- Libraries are not made, they grow. — Augustine Birrell
- Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety. — Jorge Luis Borges