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God's gifts put men's best dreams to shame.

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God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.

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Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.

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It is rather whenWe gloriously forget ourselves, and plungeSoul-forward, headlong, into a book's profound,Impassioned for its beauty and salt of truth...more

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We get no good by being ungenerous, even to a book, and calculating profits...so much help by so much reading. it is rather when we gloriously forget ...more

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Books, books, books!I had found the secret of a garret roomPiled high with cases in my father’s name;Piled high, packed large,--where, creeping in and...more

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Good aims not always make good books.

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My letters! all dead paper, mute and white!And yet they seem alive and quiveringAgainst my tremulous hands which loose the stringAnd let them drop dow...more

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I am one who could have forgotten the plague, listening to Boccaccio's stories; and I am not ashamed of it.