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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"For what is worth in anything, But so much money as 'twill bring?"
"And the great Emathian conqueror bid spare The house of Pindarus, when temple and tow'r Went to the ground."
"The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day."
"For neither man nor angel can discern Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks Invisible, except to God alone, By His permissive will, through Heaven and Earth."
"For what is life, but the quintessence of pleasure, if we be not in a perpetual motion of enjoyment?"
Areopagitica (While profound, the elaborate metaphor and almost medicinal description of books can be seen as witty in its earnestness)
Date: 1644
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