Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art.
Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
The wise are above books.
Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims.
Wisdom, prudence, forethought, these are essential. But not second to these that noble courage which adventures the right, and leaves the consequences to God.
Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.
Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they passed.
Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.
I give each book however long it needs to be the best I can make it.
Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.
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