Justin Winsor Quotes

• A collection of good books, with a soul to it in the shape of a librarian, becomes a vitalized power among the impulses by which the world goes on to improvement.

  Justin Winsor

  Book, Power, Soul

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• Hardly a name in profane history is more august than his. Hardly another character in the world's record has made so little of its opportunities. His discovery was a blunder; his blunder was a new world; the New World is his monument.

  Justin Winsor

  Character, Opportunity, Discovery

  Justin Winsor (1891). “Christopher Columbus and how He Received and Imparted the Spirit of Discovery”

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