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The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible.

— Hugh Blair Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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In the eye of that Supreme Being to whom our whole internal frame is uncovered, dispositions hold the place of actions.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

It frequently happens that where the second line is sublime, the third, in which he meant to rise still higher, is perfectly bombast.

Dissimulation in youth is the forerunner of perfidy in old age; its first appearance is the fatal omen of growing depravity and future shame.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

Between levity and cheerfulness there is a wide distinction; and the mind which is most open to levity is frequently a stranger to cheerfulness.

Charity, like the sun, brightens every object on which it shines.

Sermons (1824)

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Francis Bacon Meditationes sacræ (1597)

It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.

Albert Pike Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith Afterthoughts (1931)

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