“A book is a wonderful present. Though it may grow worn, it will never grow old.”
Source: Girl in a Cage
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American speculative fiction and children's writer 1939Related quotes
“Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.”
K 13
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook K (1789-1793)
“Here the heart
May give a useful lesson to the head,
And Learning wiser grow without his books.”
Source: The Task (1785), Book VI, Winter Walk at Noon, Line 85.
"The Gods" (1876) as published in The Gods and Other Lectures (1879).
Context: Day by day, religious conceptions grow less and less intense. Day by day, the old spirit dies out of book and creed. The burning enthusiasm, the quenchless zeal of the early church have gone, never, never to return. The ceremonies remain, but the ancient faith is fading out of the human heart. The worn-out arguments fail to convince, and denunciations that once blanched the faces of a race, excite in us only derision and disgust. As time rolls on, the miracles grow mean and small, and the evidences our fathers thought conclusive utterly fail to satisfy us.
“As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armour themselves against wonder.”
Source: The Favorite Game
Source: When the Snow Fell
“The best parts of this book grow out of poems and song lyrics.”
Comment on the scene in which Baoyu meets Hsiao-hung for the second time in chapter 25, as reported and quoted in Enchantment and Disenchantment: Love and Illusion in Chinese Literature by Wai-yee Li (Princeton University Press, 1993), footnote on p. 168
“Love's mysteries in souls do grow,
But yet the body is his book.”
The Extasy, line 71
Source: The Complete English Poems
