We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.
William E. GladstoneRead
The book must of necessity be put into a bookcase. And the bookcase must be housed. And the house must be kept. And the library must be dusted, must be arranged, must be catalogued. What a vista of toil, yet not unhappy toil!
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of maintaining knowledge and the effort required to preserve it.
William E. Gladstone reflects on the labor involved in organizing and maintaining a library, symbolizing the dedication needed to uphold knowledge and culture. Despite the toil, he finds joy and satisfaction in this work, highlighting that the pursuit of knowledge can be fulfilling, even if it requires effort.
In practice
In a speech about the value of libraries, one could cite this quote to illustrate the dedication required for preserving knowledge.
We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.
Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.
No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.
Be inspired with the belief that life is a great and noble calling; not a mean and groveling thing that we are to shuffle through as we can, but an elevated and lofty destiny.
Justice delayed is justice denied.
Thrift of time will repay you in after-life with a thousandfold of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams.
All that being a college coach has done, is it's reaffirmed the need to take care of our young people. They're the ones that are going to make a difference. We spend a lot of time blaming them for stuff, and not enough time mentoring them and helping them stand on their own two feet.
If I had a choice of educating my daughters or my sons because of opportunity constraints, I would choose to educate my daughters.
Few things are better in the world than a room full of librarians. I consider them literary heroes. The keepers and defenders of the written word.
Journalism still, in a democracy, is the essential force to get the public educated and mobilized to take action on behalf of our ancient ideals.
So many organizations have a mentoring arm, but they don't really do it. Their idea of mentoring a kid is giving them general advice. But what they need to do is read with children.
I tell you, in this country, you don't get much of an education. Throughout high school, through junior college, which is all I went, I didn't know anything about the annihilation of all the Indian nations that were here.
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