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Habit must play a larger place in our religious life. We worship when we feel like it, we pray when we feel like it. We… — Ralph Washington Sockman
Much had he read, Much more had he seen; he studied from the life, And in th' original perus'd mankind. — John Armstrong
We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out discretion, and so disappears the most immediate breath of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I have studied the enemy all my life. I have read the memoirs of his generals and his leaders. I have even read his philosophers… — George S. Patton
All my life I have been trying to learn, to read, to see and hear, and to write. At sixty-five I began my first novel… — Carl Sandburg
"Do you know," Ivan Bunin recalls Anton Chekhov saying to him in 1899, near the end of his too-short life, "for how many years I… — Anton Chekhov
I long to embrace, to include in my own short life, all that is accessible to man. I long to speak, to read, to wield… — Anton Chekhov
The walls of rude minds are scrawled all over with facts, with thoughts. They shall one day bring a lantern and read the inscriptions. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everyone engaged in research must have had the experience of working with feverish and prolonged intensity to write a paper which no one else will… — Noam Chomsky
I can only think that the book is read because it deals with the difficulties of schooling, which do not change. Please note: the difficulties,… — Jacques Barzun
Mathematics is a language. We want scientists to be able to read it, speak it, and write it. But we are are not training them… — Herbert Simon
From a programmer's point of view, the user is a peripheral that types when you issue a read request. — Pharrell Williams
When we use a language, we should commit ourselves to knowing it, being able to read it, and writing it idiomatically. — Ron Jeffries
On being asked what condition of man he considered the most pitiable: A lonesome man on a rainy day who does not know how to… — Benjamin Franklin
Faith is our direct link to universal wisdom, reminding us that we know more than we have heard or read or studied that we have… — Dan Millman
REVIEW, v.t. To set your wisdom (holding not a doubt of it./ Although in truth there's neither bone nor skin to it)/ At work upon… — Ambrose Bierce
How long are women to remain a wholly unrepresented body of the people? This is a question that has of late been agitated in England,… — Unknown Author
The plea for the predominance of learning to read in early school life because of the great importance attaching to literature seems to be a… — John Dewey
Sparky's the only guy I know who's written more books than he's read. — Ernie Harwell
In order to dream so far, is it enough to read? Isn't it necessary to write? Write as in our schoolboy past, in those days… — Gaston Bachelard
I hate having to read the manual. — Trevor Horn
I used to read the myths of love Now I have become the mythical lover — Unknown Author
Apart from Love, which is not a human emotion, of all the rest my last words would best read: It's all for the experience. — Vanna Bonta
About Thomas Hobbes: He was 40 years old before he looked on geometry; which happened accidentally. Being in a gentleman's library, Euclid's Elements lay open,… — John Aubrey
A Ten-Point Plan for Increased Spirituality: 1. Read Scriptures Daily. 2. Pray Fervently and Sincerely. 3. Fast Meaningfully. 4. Retire Early and Get Up Early.… — Joe J. Christensen

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