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An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing.

— Thomas Traherne

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Order the beauty even of beauty is,
It is the rule of bliss,
The very life and form and cause of pleasure.

To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom.

As nothing is more easy than to think, so nothing is more difficult than to think well.

The corn was orient and immortal wheat, which never should be reaped, nor was ever sown. I thought it had stood from everlasting to everlasting.

Some unknown joys there be
Laid up in store for me.

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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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