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Books - reading

I wish I could write a beautiful book to break those hearts that are soon to cease to exist: a book of faith and small neat worlds and of people who live by the philosophies of popular songs.

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Best Quotes about Books - reading

Next, in importance to books are their titles.

Davies, Paul

The best effect of any book, is that it excites the reader to self-activity.

Carlyle, Thomas

A man ought to read just as his inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

Johnson, Samuel

I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors. There is so much aspiration in them, so much audacious hope and trembling fear, so much of the heart's history, that all errors and shortcomings are for a while lost sight of in the amiable self assertion of youth.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.

Geneen, Harold S.

The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, The medicines of the soul.

Hood, Paxton

Very young children eat their books, literally devouring their contents. This is one reason for the scarcity of first editions of Alice in Wonderland and other favorites of the nursery.

Rosenbach, A. S. W.

For a good book has this quality, that it is not merely a petrifaction of its author, but that once it has been tossed behind, like Deucalion's little stone, it acquires a separate and vivid life of its own.

Lejeune, Caroline

Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Books are masters who instruct us without rods or ferules, without words or anger, without bread or money. If you approach them, they are not asleep; if you seek them, they do not hide; if you blunder, they do not scold; if you are ignorant, they do not laugh at you.

Bury, Richard De

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Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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You will be the same person in five as you are today except for the people you meet and the books you read.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading. I cannot sit and think; books think for me.

Lamb, Charles

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Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be, yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.

Wycherley, William

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Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.

Rochman, Hazel

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I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

Bevan, Aneurin

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Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.

Martineau, Harriet

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A book is like a man -- clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot hold the feathers firm too near the sun.

Steinbeck, John

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He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.

Aubrey, John

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Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.

Whipple, Edwin P.

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Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.

Jackson, Holbrook

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Hypocrite reader -- my fellow -- my brother!

Baudelaire, Charles

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If I had my way books would not be written in English, but in an exceedingly difficult secret language that only skilled professional readers and story-tellers could interpret. Then people like you would have to go to public halls and pay good prices to hear the professionals decode and read the books aloud for you. This plan would have the advantage of scaring off all amateur authors, retired politicians, country doctors and I-Married-a-Midget writers who would not have the patience to learn the secret language.

Davies, Robertson

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There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.

Fielding, Henry

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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept on the stretch.

Steele, Sir Richard

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We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The age of the book is almost gone.

Steiner, George

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Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Read good, big important things.

Noonan, Peggy

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Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason: they made no such demand upon those who wrote them. Those works, therefore, are the most valuable, that set our thinking faculties in the fullest operation. understand them.

Clarendon

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The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency --the belief that the here and now is all there is.

Bloom, Allan

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Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.

Spielberg, Steven

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There is no robber worse than a bad book.

Proverb, Italian

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A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Books and marriage go ill together.

Moliere

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Reading the Scriptures is an uplifting experience.

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Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.

Gibbon, Edward

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Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever.

Swartz, J.

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The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.

Butler, Samuel

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I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

Mansfield, Katherine

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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.

Brookner, Anita

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Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely necessary; to men of real science, they are tools: but more are tools to them.

Johnson

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Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

McKenna, Richard

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Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.

Asimov, Isaac

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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.

France, Anatole

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You will find most books worth reading are worth reading twice.

Morely, John

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The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.