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The library is not a shrine for the worship of books. It is not a temple where literary incense must be burned or where ones one devotion to the bound book is expressed in ritual. A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas a place where history comes to life. Norman Cousins		Wednesday Feb 04, 2026
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About Sir Henry Taylor

	Sir Henry Taylor
	(1800-1886) Philip Van Artevelde. Part i. Act i. Sc. 5 - English poet, appts, in Colonial Office, author of verse drama.

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Such souls, Whose sudden visitations daze the world, Vanish like lightning, but they leave behind A voice that in the distance far away Wakens the slumbering ages.

An unreflected light did never yet Dazzle the vision feminine.

The philosophy which affects to teach us a contempt of money does not run very deep.

He that lacks time to mourn, lacks time to mend. Eternity mourns that. 'T is an ill cure For life's worst ills, to have no time to feel them. Where sorrow 's held intrusive and turned out, There wisdom will not enter, nor true power, Nor aught that dignifies humanity.

The world knows nothing of its greatest men.

We figure to ourselves The thing we like; and then we build it up, As chance will have it, on the rock or sand, For thought is tired of wandering o'er the world, And homebound Fancy runs her bark ashore.

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