"Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style."

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"Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style."

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"Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white."

William Blake, English Poet

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"The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum."

Franz Kafka, Austrian Novelist

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"I've read the last page of the Bible. It's all going to turn out all right."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"Is it experimental to have been influenced by the Bible? By Saint Augustine?"

Marguerite Young, American Author

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"Determining to read through your Bible is a decision only you can make."

Jim George, American Author

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"A man may learn from his Bible to be a more thorough gentleman than if he had been brought up in all the drawing-rooms in London."

Charles Kingsley, English Clergyman

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"I loved fairy tales when I was a kid. Grimm. The grimmer the better. I loved gruesome gothic tales and, in that respect, I liked Bible stories, because to me they were very gothic."

Amy Tan, American Novelist

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"The accepted versions of the Bible are all substantially correct."

William B. Riley, American Evangelist

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"There have been more books alone written about Hamlet than have been written about the Bible."

Mark Rylance, English Actor

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"We have used the Bible as if it were a mere special constable's handbook, an opium dose for keeping beasts of burden patient while they are overloaded."

Charles Kingsley, English Clergyman

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"Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind."

Advice

"Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain."

Imagination

"The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment."

Happiness

"A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive."

Family

"All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness."

Sympathy

"Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process."

Life

"So lonely 'twas that God himself scarce seemed there to be."

Isolation

"What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you dreamed? And what if, in your dream, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if, when you awake, you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?"

Dreams

"Day after day, day after day,We stuck, nor breath nor motion;As idle as a painted shipUpon a painted ocean."

Isolation

"In poems, equally as in philosophic disquisitions, genius produces the strongest impressions of novelty while it rescues the most admitted truths from the impotence caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission."

Loss