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Reading Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all.
- Let us answer a book of ink with a book of flesh and blood.
- 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…
- We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise.
- Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no can't in it, no excess of explanation, and it is full of suggestion,…
- Hence, instead of Man Thinking, we have the bookworm. Hence, the book-learned class, who value books, as such; not as related to nature and the…
- I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was significant to him, but which he could never…
- Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil…
- Books take their place according to their specific gravity as surely as potatoes in a tub.
- I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River, when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals,…
- We often read with as much talent as we write.
- When fear enters the heart of a man at hearing the names of candidates and the reading of laws that are proposed, then is the…
- Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough for literature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
- There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
- Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
- Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.
- Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of…
- In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.
- If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
- In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends imprisoned by an enchanter in paper and leathern boxes.
- The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.
- I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.
- Tis the good reader that makes the good book.
- Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and…
- Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or…
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