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  • There is this value in books, that they enable us to converse with the dead. There is something in this beyond the mere intrinsic worth of what they have left us.

    Sir Egerton Brydges, Robert Pearse Gillies (1813). “The Ruminator: containing a series of moral, critical, and sentimental essays”, p.143
  • He who is lord of himself, and exists upon his own resources, is a noble but a rare being.

    Sir Egerton Brydges (1834). “The Autobiography, Times, Opinions, and Contemporaries of Sir Egerton Brydges, Bart”, p.47
  • The glory dies not, and the grief is past.

    "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. p. 313-14, On the Death of Sir Walter Scott, 1922.
  • I have observed that vulgar readers almost always lose their veneration for the writings of the genius with whom they have had personal intercourse.

    Sir Egerton Brydges (1824). “Letters on the Character and Poetical Genius of Lord Byron”, p.340
  • To delight the ear and the eye is a mere sensual indulgence;—true poetry strikes at the soul.

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