The student has his Rome, his whole glowing Italy, within the four walls of his library. He has in his books the ruins of an antique world and the glories of a modern one.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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  2. Libraries store the energy that fuels the imagination. They open up windows to the world and inspire us to explore and achieve, and contribute to improving our quality of life. Libraries change lives for the better. - Sidney Sheldon

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  4. She'd absolutely adored the library_an entire building where anyone could take things they didn't own and feel no remorse about it. - Ally Carter

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More Quotes By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  1. The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books

  2. As Unto the bow the the cord is , So unto the man is woman; Though she bends him, she obeys him, Though she draws him , yet she follows: Useless each without the other.

  3. I do not believe anyone can be perfectly well, who has a brain and a heart

  4. Be still, sad heart! and cease repining; Behind the clouds is the sun still shining; Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall

  5. Ah, Nothing is too late, till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate.

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