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Many readers
judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their
feelings --as some savage tribes determine the power of
muskets by their recoil; that being considered best which
fairly prostrates the purchaser.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
1819-1892, American Poet
I feel a kind
of reverence for the first books of young authors. There is
so much aspiration in them, so much audacious hope and
trembling fear, so much of the heart's history, that all
errors and shortcomings are for a while lost sight of in the
amiable self assertion of youth.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
1819-1892, American Poet
All books are
either dreams or swords.
-- Amy Lowell
1874-1925, American Poet,
Critic
For books are
more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core
of ages past, the reason why men lived and worked and died,
the essence and quintessence of their lives.
-- Amy Lowell
1874-1925, American Poet,
Critic
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Books are the
bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another
mind.
-- James Russell Lowell
1819-1891, American Poet,
Critic, Editor
What a sense
of security in an old book which time has criticized for us.
-- James Russell Lowell
1819-1891, American Poet,
Critic, Editor
The multitude
of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever
for writing.
-- Martin Luther
1483-1546, German Leader of
the Protestant Reformation
In science,
read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the
oldest. The classics are always modern.
-- Lord Edward Lytton
1803-1873, British Writer,
Statesman
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