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| Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a good book, kills reason itself. | John Milton | 1608-1674, British Poet |
| Deep versed in books and shallow in himself. | John Milton | 1608-1674, British Poet |
| Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a certain potency of life in them, to be as active as the soul whose progeny they are; they preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of the living intellect that bred them. | John Milton | 1608-1674, British Poet |
| Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties. | John Milton | 1608-1674, British Poet |
| They also serve who only stand and wait. | John Milton | 1608-1674, British Poet |
| Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired. | John Morely | |
| You will find most books worth reading are worth reading twice. | John Morely | |
| Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions. | John Morley | 1838-1923, British Journalist, Biographer, Statesman |
| Learning why one great book is just like every other great book is the key to understanding literature | John Moschitta | |
| In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future, let alone for the rest of your life. The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn. | John Naisbitt | American Trend Analyst, Futurist, Author |
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| I never criticize a player until they are first convinced of my unconditional confidence in their abilities. | John Robinson | 1576-1625, American Clergyman |
| How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it? | John Ruskin | 1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist |
| You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement. | John Ruskin | 1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist |
| Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time. | John Ruskin | 1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist |
| A book worth reading is worth buying. | John Ruskin | 1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist |
| Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours. | John Ruskin | 1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist |
| The secret of language is the secret of sympathy and its full charm is possible only to the gentle. | John Ruskin | 1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist |
| It takes a great deal of living to get a little deal of learning. | John Ruskin | 1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist |
| What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses? | John Ruskin | 1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist |
| One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire. | John W. Foster | 1770-1843, British Clergyman, Essayist |
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| Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge. | John Wesley | 1703-1791, British Preacher, Founder of Methodism |
| I set myself on fire and people come to watch me burn. | John Wesley | 1703-1791, British Preacher, Founder of Methodism |
| It's what you learn after you know it all that counts. | John Wooden | 1910-, American Basketball Coach |
| How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man. | Johnny Cash | 1932-, American Musician, Singer, Guitarist, Songwriter, Actor, Composer |
| Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely necessary; to men of real science, they are tools: but more are tools to them. | Johnson | |
| Language is the pedigree of nations. | Johnson | |
| Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen. | Joineriana | |
| You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf. | Jon Kabat Zinn | |
| What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in a novel are made out of the sentences. That's what their substance is. | Jonathan Miller | 1934-, British Actor, Director |
| There is but one way left to save a classic: to give up revering him and use him for our own salvation. | Jose Ortega Y Gasset | 1883-1955, Spanish Essayist, Philosopher |
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| Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors. | Joseph Addison | 1672-1719, British Essayist, Poet, Statesman |
| Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn. | Joseph Addison | 1672-1719, British Essayist, Poet, Statesman |
| Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures. | Joseph Addison | 1672-1719, British Essayist, Poet, Statesman |
| There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. | Joseph Brodsky | 1940-, Russian-born American Poet, Critic |
| To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot. | Joseph Conrad | 1857-1924, Polish-born British Novelist |
| To know how to wait. It is the great secret of success. | Joseph De Maistre | 1753-1821, French Diplomat, Philosopher |
| The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones. | Joseph Joubert | 1754-1824, French Moralist |
| There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world. | Joseph Joubert | 1754-1824, French Moralist |
| There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them. | Joseph Roux | 1834-1905, French Priest, Writer |
| ''Work and wait'', ''work and wait'' is what God says to us in creation. | Josiah Gilbert Holland | 1819-1881, American Author |
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| A novel points out that the world consists entirely of exceptions. | Joyce Carey | |
| Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money. | Jules Renard | 1864-1910, French Author, Dramatist |
| Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden. | Karl Kraus | 1874-1936, Austrian Satirist |
| Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life. | Karl Kraus | 1874-1936, Austrian Satirist |
| On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its ''great intellects.'' | Karl Marx | 1818-1883, German Political Theorist, Social Philosopher |
| The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books. | Katherine Mansfield | 1888-1923, New Zealand-born British Author |
| The mechanics of industry is easy. The real engine is the people : Their motivation and direction. | Ken Gilbert | |
| Everyone and everything around you is your teacher. | Ken Keyes Jr. | 1921-1995, American Author |
| Why doesn't the fellow who says, ''I'm no speechmaker'' let it go at that instead of giving a demonstration? | Kin Hubbard | 1868-1930, American Humorist, Journalist |
| I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival. | Kurt Vonnegut Jr. | 1922-, American Novelist |
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