Book Quote by Thomas Carlyle Download Open image “A good book is the purest essence of a human soul.” — Thomas Carlyle ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Essence Good book Human soul Humans Soul Spirituality
A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life, and as such… — Penelope Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
A good book is the precious life-blood of the master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose for a life beyond — John Milton Copy Share Image
A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
A good book ... leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
A good book is the very essence of a good man. His virtues survive in it, while the foibles and faults of his actual… — Theodore L. Cuyler Copy Share Image
“A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.” — John Milton Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“A great book feeds our soul and nourishes our spirit in a way nothing else can.” — C. S. Lakin Copy Share Image
O thou that pinest in the imprisonment of the Actual, and criest bitterly to the gods for a kingdom wherein to rule and create,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property, of… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well; for as a whole city is affected by the licentious passions and vices… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The glory of a workman, still more of a master workman, that he does his work well, ought to be his most precious possession;… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
All human things do require to have an ideal in them; to have some soul in them. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Insurrection, never so necessary, is a most sad necessity; and governors who wait for that to instruct them are surely getting into the fatalest… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Let Time and Chance combine, combine! Let Time and Chance combine! The fairest love from heaven above, That love of yours was mine, My… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
