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Earth's crammed with heaven... But only he who sees, takes off his shoes.Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Books, books, books! I had found the secret of a garret room Piled high with cases in my father’s name; Piled high, packed large, --where, creeping in and out Among the giant fossils of my past, Like some small nimble mouse between the ribs Of a mastodon, I nibbled here and there At this or that box, pulling through the gap, In heats of terror, haste, victorious joy, The first book first. And how I felt it beat Under my pillow, in the morning’s dark, An hour before the sun would let me read! My books! .Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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We get no good by being ungenerous, even to a book, and calculating profits...so much help by so much reading. it is rather when we gloriously forget ourselves, and plunge soul-forward, headlong, into a book's profound, impassioned for its beauty and salt of truth--'tis then we get the right good from the book.Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Good aims not always make good books.Elizabeth Barrett Browning