Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes About Reading

Quotes about: Reading

• No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Best Friend, Funny Friendship, Reading

• Books succeed; and lives fail.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Book, Reading, Succeed

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.450

• At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Time, Pain, Reading

  "The Barretts at Hope End: the early diary of Elizabeth Barrett Browning".

• We get no good By being ungenerous, even to a book, And calculating profits--so much help By so much reading. It is rather when We gloriously forget ourselves, and plunge Soul-forward, headlong, into a book's profound, Impassioned for its beauty, and salt of truth-- 'Tis then we get the right good from a book.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Book, Reading, Profound

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1872). “Poetical Works”, p.331

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