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Robert W. Chambers2
American artist, novelist, short story writer 1865–1933Related quotes
“What a blessing it is to love books.”
Elizabeth von Arnim (1866–1941) Australian writer
Source: The Solitary Summer
“A blessed companion is a book,—a book that fitly chosen is a life-long friend.”
Douglas William Jerrold (1803–1857) English dramatist and writer
Books, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Nikos Kazantzakis (1883–1957) Greek writer
Voice of the Nile, from Odysseus' story, Book VIII, line 1290
The Odyssey : A Modern Sequel (1938)
Context: Blessed are those eyes that have seen more water than any man!
Blessed be that haughty mind that aimed at the greatest hope!
May you be blessed who row the current your life long
and now with dry unfreshened lips descend to Hades
to find the hidden deathless springs and slake your thirst!
My son, it's death who keeps and pours the deathless waters.
“Upon the whole, a contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.”
Joseph Addison (1672–1719) politician, writer and playwright
No. 574 (30 July 1714).
The Spectator (1711–1714)
“Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.”
Edward Gibbon (1737–1794) English historian and Member of Parliament
Herrick Johnson (1832–1913) American clergyman
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 29.