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Books are mirrors:
you only see in them what you already have inside you.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Related topics: Wisdom
Books and friends should be few but good.
- Anonymous
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience:
this is the ideal life.
- Mark Twain
Be careful about reading health books.
You may die of a misprint.
- Mark Twain
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Who has fully realized that history
is not contained in thick books
but lives in our very blood?
- Carl Jung
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture.
Just get people to stop reading them.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Books can only reveal us to ourselves,
and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.
- Henry David Thoreau
Books serve to show a man
that those original thoughts of his
aren't very new at all.
- Abraham Lincoln
Reading about nature is fine, but if a person
walks in the woods and listens carefully,
he can learn more than what is in books,
for they speak with the voice of God.
- George Washington Carver
Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection,
not in books alone, but in every leaf in spring-time.
- Martin Luther 
We do not need to proselytize
either by our speech or by our writing.
We can only do so really with our lives.
Let our lives be open books for all to study.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Read the best books first,
or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
- Henry David Thoreau
Books! I dunno if I ever told you this,
but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- Bono
Books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- Bono
A house without books is like a room without windows.
- Horace Mann
The man who does not read good books
has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain
Books are the treasured wealth of the world
and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
- Henry David Thoreau
True justice is not a matter of courts and law books,
but of a commitment in each of us to liberty and mutual respect.
- Jimmy Carter
Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics
even more than by the manner in which they are treated.
- Henry David Thoreau
The things I want to know are in books;
my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
- Abraham Lincoln
I cannot live without books.
- Thomas Jefferson
Each age, it is found, must write its own books;
or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some books leave us free
and some books make us free.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations...
The quotations, when engraved upon the memory, give you good thoughts.
They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.
- Winston Churchill
Books constitute capital.
A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years.
It is not, then, an article of mere consumption
but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men,
setting out in life, it is their only capital.
- Thomas Jefferson
You can make more friends in two months
by becoming interested in other people
than you can in two years by trying
to get other people interested in you.
- Dale Carnegie
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
It is better to be in chains with friends,
than to be in a garden with strangers.
- Persian Proverb
"We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?" asked Piglet.
"Even longer," Pooh answered.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Friends are those rare people who ask how we are
and then wait to hear the answer.
- Anonymous
Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley
I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
- Abraham Lincoln
When true friends meet in adverse hour,
'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower.
A watery way an instant seen,
The darkly closing clouds between.
- Sir Walter Scott
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Life is partly what we make it,
and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
- Tehyi Hsieh
Can miles truly separate us from friends?
If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?
- Richard Bach
One measure of friendship consists
not in the number of things friends can discuss,
but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
- Clifton Fadiman
Friends love misery, in fact.
Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky
or too successful or too pretty,
our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
- Erica Jong
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus
It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley
The difference between men friends and women friends
is that men tend to do things together,
women tend to just be together.
- Art Jahnke
So long as the memory of certain
beloved friends lives in my heart,
I shall say that life is good.
- Helen Keller
Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet
when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
- Anonymous
Friends... they cherish one another's hopes.
They are kind to one another's dreams.
- Henry David Thoreau
The making of friends, who are real friends,
is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
- Edward Everett Hale
We will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Friends are like bras:
close to your heart and there for support.
- Anonymous
Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle
Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving
for my friends, the old and the new.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
I will reflect the finest qualities my friends offer me
and remind them of all the promise I see in them.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.
- Jacques Delille
I always like to know everything about my new friends,
and nothing about my old ones.
- Oscar Wilde
I get by with a little help from my friends.
- John Lennon
Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families.
- Anonymous
Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with.
Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson Sr.
Fate makes us family. choice makes us friends.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous
No man is the whole of himself;
his friends are the rest of him.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick
My father always used to say that when you die,
if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
- Lee Iacocca
Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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