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Robert W. Chambers 2
American artist, novelist, short story writer 1865–1933Related quotes
“What a blessing it is to love books.”
Source: The Solitary Summer
“A blessed companion is a book,—a book that fitly chosen is a life-long friend.”
Books, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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.”
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.”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 29.