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Books Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- How novel and original must be each new mans view of the universe - for though the world is so old - and so many…
- Books that are books are all that you want, and there are but a half dozen in any thousand.
- The best books are not read even by those who are called good readers. What does our Concord culture amount to? There is in this…
- In most books, the I, of first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained; that, in respect to egotism, is the main difference.
- Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man cannot read, and…
- Many college text-books, which were a weariness and stumbling-block when I studied, I have since read a little with pleasure and profit.
- After all, I believe it is the style of thought entirely, and the style of expression, which makes the difference in books.
- It is remarkable, but on the whole, perhaps, not to be lamented, that the world is so unkind to a new book. Any distinguished traveler…
- If men were to be destroyed and the books they have written were to be transmitted to a new race of creatures, in a new…
- The Library is a wilderness of books.
- Books of natural history make the most cheerful winter reading. I read in Audubon with a thrill of delight, when the snow covers the ground,…
- Our hymn-books resound with a melodious cursing of God and enduring Him forever.
- A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I…
- Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
- Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
- Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.
- Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics even more than by the manner in which they are treated.
- Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Books, the oldest and the best, stand naturally and…
- Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
- Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent.
- To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will tax the reader more…
- Writing your name can lead to writing sentences. And the next thing you'll be doing is writing paragraphs, and then books. And then you'll be…
- It is not all books that are as dull as their readers.
- How novel and original must be each new mans view of the universe - for though the world is so old - and so many…
- To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will task the reader more…
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- Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. — Aristophanes
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my… — Isaac Asimov
- I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was, three shelves… — Sean Astin
- I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
- Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the opera -… — Margaret Atwood
- Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in… — Margaret Atwood
- I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed one right… — Margaret Atwood
- I know that some books and some writers, you can pretty much draw a square around it and say, 'Nobody under 40,'… — Margaret Atwood
- If you feel that there's the author and then the character, then the book is not working. People have a habit of… — Margaret Atwood
- Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Although most products will soon be too costly to purchase, there will be a thriving market in the sale of books on… — Norman Ralph Augustine