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Quote by Francis Bacon
For friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends,

For friends… do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble. – Francis Bacon

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Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory. – Francis Bacon

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Art
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But men must know, that in this theatre of mans life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on. – Francis Bacon

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Catalogues of imaginary libraries are an obscure but fruitful area of collecting. The tradition of imaginary books, which exist only within other books, goes back at least to Rabelais, who invented a list of book titles for the Abbey of Saint-Victor in Gargantua and Pantagruel (c.1532). – Emi Hastings, “Catalogues of Imaginary Libraries,” 2014

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Nothing is more beautiful than a beautiful book. – Joseph Joubert (1754–1824), translated from French by George H. Calvert, 1

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A dirty book is rarely dusty. – Author unknown

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Books

The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have been presented in the entire history of television. – Andrew Ross

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Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. – Rumi

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Live life to the fullest, for the future is scarce. – Nick Carter

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What we have to get clear to kids is that when you offer your stillness and open yourself to the experience of music, it pays you back more than you give. – David Ogden Stiers

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Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes. – Alan Watts

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