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Of many large volumes the index is the best portion and the usefullest. A glance through the casement gives whatever knowledge of the interior is needful. An epitome is only a book shortened; and as a general rule, the worth increases as the size lessens.

Robert Aris Willmott

Whether a book be read from the oak lectern of a college library, in the parlor window, or beneath the trees of summer, no fruit will be gathered unless the thoughts are steadily given up to the perusal.

Robert Aris Willmott

The history of men of science has one peculiar advantage, as it shows the importance of little things in producing great results.

Robert Aris Willmott

Talents, to strike the eye of posterity, should be concentrated. Rays, powerless while they are scattered, burn in a point.

Robert Aris Willmott

Books, of which the principles are diseased or deformed, must be kept on the shelf of the scholar, as the man of science preserves monsters in glasses. They belong to the study of the mind's morbid anatomy, and ought to be accurately labelled. Voltaire will still be a wit, notwithstanding he is a scoffer; and we may admire the brilliant spots and eyes of the viper, if we acknowledge its venom and call it a reptile.

Robert Aris Willmott

Robert Aris Willmott

Robert Aris Willmott

Born: 1809

Died: 1863 (aged 54)

Bio: Robert Aris Willmott was an English cleric and author. Christened Robert Eldridge Aris Willmott, he never used his second Christian name.

Known for:

PRECIOUS STONES AIDS TO REFLEC
LIVES OF SACRED POETS
BISHOP JEREMY TAYLOR HIS PREDE
ENGLISH SACRED POETRY OF THE 1

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