Source: The Key to Theosophy (1889)
“Books cannot always please, however good;
Minds are not ever craving for their food.”
The Borough (1810), Letter xxiv, "Schools".
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Minds are not ever craving for their food." by George Crabbe?
George Crabbe 20
English poet, surgeon, and clergyman 1754–1832Related quotes
Stanza 3.
Lyrical Ballads (1798–1800), Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey (1798)
Context: And now, with gleams of half-extinguished thought,
With many recognitions dim and faint,
And somewhat of a sad perplexity,
The picture of the mind revives again:
While here I stand, not only with the sense
Of present pleasure, but with pleasing thoughts
That in this moment there is life and food
For future years. And so I dare to hope,
Though changed, no doubt, from what I was when first
I came among these hills;
John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton
(1834–1902) British politician and historian
p, 125
The History of Freedom in Antiquity (1877)
An Introduction to Metaphysics (1903), translated by T. E. Hulme. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1912, p. 44
