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The Lighthouse
«Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. They are engines of change, windows on the world, lighthouses erected in the sea of time.»
Author: Barbara W. Tuchman
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Books,
Literature
| Keywords:
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«Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships.»
Author: Charles Simic
| About:
Speech
| Keywords:
constructing, lighthouse, lighthouses, ships, The Lighthouse
«Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time»
Author: Edwin P. Whipple
| About:
Books
| Keywords:
erected, erecting, erects, Great Sea, lighthouse, lighthouses, the Great Sea, The Lighthouse
«It is the one orderly product our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths; it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden the best evidence we can give of our dignity.»
Author: E. M. Forster
(Essayist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
labyrinth, labyrinths, lighthouse, lighthouses, middling, sentinel, sentinels, The Lighthouse
«Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.»
Author: Immanuel Kant
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
lighthouse, lighthouses, philosophic, shores, strew, strewed, strewn, strews, The Lighthouse, wreck
«Lighthouses are more helpful than churches»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
churches, helpful, lighthouse, lighthouses, The Lighthouse
«Anythin' for a quiet life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse»
Author: Charles Dickens
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
lighthouse, lighthouses, Quiet Life, The Lighthouse