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Some books are drenchèd sands
On which a great soul’s wealth lies all in heaps,
Like a wrecked argosy.

— Alexander Smith A Life Drama and other Poems (1853)

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The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other.

Dreamthorp: Essays written in the Country (1863)

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine.

Dreamthorp: Essays written in the Country (1863)

Like a pale martyr in his shirt of fire.

A Life Drama and other Poems (1853)

Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.

City Poems (1857)

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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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