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Book Quotes - Page 125

May books and nature be their early joy!

William Wordsworth (1850). “The Prelude, Or, Growth of a Poet's Mind: An Autobiographical Poem”, p.124

In nature's infinite book of secrecy A little I can read.

1606 Soothsayer. Antony and Cleopatra, act1, sc.2, l.9-10.

Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process.

William Butler Yeats (2010). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. III: Autobiogra”, p.341, Simon and Schuster

It is with the reading of books the same as with looking at pictures; one must, without doubt, without hesitations, with assurance, admire what is beautiful.

Vincent van Gogh, Vincent Willem Gogh (1927). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1872-1886: With a Memoir by His Sister-in-law, J. Van Gogh-Bonger ...”

But everything of value about me is in my books.

V. S. Naipaul (2012). “Literary Occasions: Essays”, p.188, Pan Macmillan

Man is to become divine by realizing the divine. Idols or temples, or churches or books, are only the supports, the help of his spiritual childhood.

Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Swami Vivekanand's Chicago Speech: Swami Vivekananda’s Speech At World Parliament Of Religion, Chicago”, p.15, editionNEXT.com

People hate good books to be over. I wish I could write a 700-page book.

"Musician Steve Earle". The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. May 23, 2011.