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I pray you all, gentlemen and gentlewomen that readeth this book of Arthur and his knights, from the beginning to the ending, pray for me while I am alive, that God send me good deliverance, and when I am dead, I pray you all pray for my soul.

Quote by Sir Thomas Malory about books, pray, beginning, soul, god, good, good luck, contentment

All that I am I owe to Jesus Christ, revealed to me in His divine Book.

Quote by David Livingstone about religion

Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories.

Quote by Mario Vargas Llosa about books, rest, writing, affair, world, contentment

A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.

Quote by William Hazlitt about opinion, language

The book is life of our time.

Quote by Vissarion Belinsky about books, time, life

Even the worst book can give us something to think about.

Quote by Wislawa Szymborska about books

When a new book is published, read an old one.

Quote by Samuel Rogers about books, old, olderness

A book may be compared to your neighbor: if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.

Quote by Rupert Brooke about books, bad luck, bad, good, good luck, contentment

When you are writing the most beautiful page in the book of your life, the fate with its eternal irony pours ink over the following pages.

Quote by Veronica Micle about life, irony, destiny, writing, contentment

A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.

Quote by P. L. Travers about books, writers

The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.

Quote by Pablo Neruda about books, help, beauty, truth, thinking, contentment

I read the other day in a book by a fashionable essayist that ghosts went out when the electric light came in. What nonsense!

Quote by Edith Wharton about opinion, light, day

Nothing to understand: you open the book passing your soul over its old parchment a pale light starts suddenly flowing a poisoned spear falls down bloody wars corpses ever more deeply slashed in ever greater numbers until they are...

OQuote by Otilia Nicolescu about poetry, numbers, nothing, light, soul, old, olderness, death, spirit, contentment

Far Away: Who would've had so much darkness To be, to have been said? Who sees how death comes In my spirit the grim reaper? Night falls from somewhere, far away, Moving the ray from darkness into my temple The demon runs, splitting...

Quote by Aura Christi about poetry, hunger, air, word, earth, time, night, books, home, death

When it rains in my soul, never is clear out, and when the soul is clear, it is not raining outside ever. Works, II, The little book of Romanian wisdom

MQuote by Mihail Codreanu about soul, wisdom

Life: a book that we are not allowed to read before living, but only to anticipate what is written one, three, maybe ten pages from now

Quote by Mariana Fulger about life

The book is a bottle thrown at sea on which we should stick this label: catch it, if you can.

Quote by Alfred de Vigny about books, trap, contentment

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Quote by Thomas Jefferson about honesty, wisdom

From within the language, I am looking at you in the last book: my fairest beauty from beyond death.

Quote by Dumitru Găleşanu about eternity