Edwin Percy Whipple Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• A man of letters is often a man with two natures,--one a book nature, the other a human nature. These often clash sadly.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Book, Men, Two

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1871). “Literature and Life”, p.34

• Books -lighthouses erected in the great sea of time -books, the precious depositories of the thoughts and creations of genius -books, by whose sorcery times past become time present, and the whole pageantry of the world's history moves in solemn procession before our eyes, -these were to visit the firesides of the humble and lavish the treasures of the intellect upon the poor.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Time, Moving, Book

• Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Inspirational, Life, Book

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1871). “Literature and Life”, p.38

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