Many a man lives a burden to the Earth, but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, imbalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
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For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
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He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.
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Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.
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Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live.
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Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.
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