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To know a man's library is, in some measure, to know a man's mind.

To know a man’s library is, in some measure, to know a man’s mind.
– Geraldine Brooks

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  1. A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand. – Geraldine Brooks
  2. Who is the brave man–he who feels no fear? If so, then bravery is but a polite term for a mind devoid of rationality and imagination. – Geraldine Brooks
  3. Whose are all these ghosts?- she said, smiling at a flustered-looking Geraldine. -œOh,- said Geraldine, -œI think they might be mine…? – Diane Hall
  4. Book burnings. Always the forerunners. Heralds of the stake, the ovens, the mass graves. – Geraldine Brooks
  5. I have lived most of my life in soldiers’ camps. I know what they saw. I know how they think. Their confidence sours as sudden as curdled milk. – Geraldine Brooks
  6. I thought it best to add nothing further, to let the line of his thought lead him to his own conclusions. – Geraldine Brooks
  7. Avner had lived too long and become too canny to claim the crown of Israel for himself. – Geraldine Brooks
  8. Even though he said no store in uncanny things, he was soldier enough to value with whatever weapon came to hand. – Geraldine Brooks
  9. When a kingdom rests on it, I always expect difficulty. Then, if there is none, no blame. But if there is, one is prepared. – Geraldine Brooks
  10. No one sits, as you do, so close to a king, who does not begin to grasp how the levers of power work, and the cost of the oil that must grease them. – Geraldine Brooks
  11. This night he was a king before he was a man. At this time, this troubled me. Later, I would have cause to wish it were always so. – Geraldine Brooks
  12. He is able to put aside personal feelings and see the broad strokes. Experience counts in these things. – Geraldine Brooks
  13. David ran through concrete advantages. And then set aside the practical. The pragmatist was gone, replaced by the poet and mystic. – Geraldine Brooks
  14. The stories that grow up around a king are strong vines with a fierce grip. – Geraldine Brooks
  15. Curiosity -“ if not desire, if not plain kindness -“ might have led him to greater zeal. – Geraldine Brooks
  16. the greatest cruelty of madness is the power it has to blot out a person. – Geraldine Brooks
  17. Where was his empathy? Buried, I supposed, beneath his self-regard. – Geraldine Brooks
  18. You go on. You set one foot in front of the other, and if a thin voice cries out, somewhere behind you, you pretend not to hear, and keep going. – Geraldine Brooks
  19. The wiles of a veteran turned the younger man’s own gift of speed against him. – Geraldine Brooks
  20. We look at the Ark of the Covenant and remember who we are. – Geraldine Brooks
  21. I was not 15 anymore, and choices no longer had that same clear, bright edge to them. – Geraldine Brooks
  22. I liked to be off by myself, away from the eyes of adults who always had some task or errand to demand of an unoccupied child. – Geraldine Brooks
  23. Even the ordinary business of cleaning house seemed somehow to have become sacramental. – Geraldine Brooks
  24. It is one thing to know what is to come. It is another thing to confront it. – Geraldine Brooks
  25. the heart of a prophet is not his own to bestow. – Geraldine Brooks
  26. He did wrong. He has acknowledged it before the people. He repents it. How many kings have the humility to do that? – Geraldine Brooks
  27. You don’t need a prophet to tell you to eat. – Geraldine Brooks
  28. It’s remarkable how very many things there are that a king may not do. – Geraldine Brooks
  29. I ceased to serve a king and began, instead, to serve a kingdom. – Geraldine Brooks
  30. David set me to learn other skills, too, in those days of restless waiting. – Geraldine Brooks
  31. I used to measure the skies, now I measure the shadows of Earth.Although my mind was sky-bound, the shadow of my body lies – Johannes Kepler
  32. Society was the only threat to the sanctity of selfhood: an unpatroned library was an orderly library. – Reif Larsen
  33. — So this is the measure of your God’s Mercy.– No. This is the measure of Pharaoh’s soul. – The NT Translation Moses
  34. We cannot measure time. We can only measure changes of life and the universe. – Debasish Mridha
  35. The measure of your faith is the measure of the pain you can endure. – Dan Brown
  36. You can measure the true strength of a man by how well he controls others, but you measure his true power by how well he controls himself – Amari Soul
  37. The result may be important but it’s not the actual measure. The measure is the feeling you have made contact with something. – Eric Maisel
  38. To measure the man, measure his heart. – Malcolm Forbes
  39. The measure of your solitude is the measure of your capacity for communion. – Henri JM Nouwen
  40. The measure of love is to love without measure. – attributed to Saint Augustine

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