Books Quote by John Trapp

“Where are your books? - that light bequeathed To beings else forlorn and blind! Up! up! and drink the spirit breathed From dead men…

— William Wordsworth

“Shall a man grave his sorrows upon a stone when he hath but need to write them on the water? Nay, oh /She/, I…

— H. Rider Haggard

And the lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make thy bones: and thou shalt be like a spring…

— Bible

“But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be…

— Anonymous

“I'll read enough When I do see the very book indeed Where all my sins are writ, and that's myself. Give me that glass…

— William Shakespeare

“Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can read God directly, the hour…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I wish you may profit by my experience. Alas, how much time have I lost and wasted, which, had I been wise—I would have…

— John Newton

“14 But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall…

— C.I. Scofield

“The garden of the soul, she says, can be watered in several manners. The first, drawing the water up from a well by use…

— R. Thomas Ashbrook

“Many a man lives a burden to the Earth, but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, imbalmed and treasured…

— John Milton

“A book is the gateway to the soul of its author.”

— A.R. Voss

“Who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior Uncertain and unsettled still remains, Deep versed in…

— George Fillmore Swain