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Quote by Edwin Markham
He fed his spirit with the bread of books. - Edwin Markham

He fed his spirit with the bread of books. – Edwin Markham

Other quotes by Edwin Markham

Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, the emptiness of ages in his face, and on his back the burden of the world. – Edwin Markham

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Farming
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There is a destiny that makes us brothers, No one goes his way alone; All that we send into the lives of others, Comes back into our own. – Edwin Markham

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Fellowship
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Other Quotes from
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Sit bona librorum copia. – Horace (There are plenty of good books. Let me have a good supply of books.)

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Books

Readers of novels. I sometimes think that I could, if put to it, pick the real readers of novels out of a crowd. They have a strangeness about the eye, almost as if there were an extra bit of lens on the cornea…. The glance of a reader shows me a soul with a different orientation to time… – Sven Birkerts (b.1951), “Notes from a Confession,” The Agni Review, No.22 (1985)

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Books

I have friends whose society is delightful to me; they are persons of all countries and of all ages; distinguished in war, in council, and in letters; easy to live with, always at my command. – Francesco Petrarch

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Books

Classics are not classics because hoary with age — they are the steel balls which have worn down mountains but remained unchanged in the mill of time. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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Books

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I like being famous when its convenient for me and completely anonymous when its not. – Catherine Deneuve

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famous

I dont like it when people on the street say smile or cheer up. Its a real cheap line. Im feeling good. Im feeling real grateful for everything. Its a solid time in my life. When people say I look sad, theyre wrong. – Nicolas Cage

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Gratitude

We establish no religion in this country, nor will we ever. But we poison our society when we remove its theological underpinnings. We court corruption when we leave society devoid of belief. – Jeff Miller

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Religion

It may seem strange to those in health that our beliefs affect us. The fact is, there is nothing of us but belief. It is the whole capital and stock in trade of man. It is all that can be changed, and embraces everything man has made or ever will make. – Phineas Parkhurst Quimby, 1865

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Health