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Reading Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- One of the amusements of idleness is reading without fatigue of close attention; and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish is not to…
- People have now a-days got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do as…
- Every reader should remember the diffidence of Socrates, and repair by his candour the injuries of time: he should impute the seeming defects of his…
- The purpose of a writer is to be read, and the criticism which would destroy the power of pleasing must be blown aside
- Some read for style, and some for argument: one has little care about the sentiment, he observes only how it is expressed; another regards not…
- Among those whose reputation is exhausted in a short time by its own luxuriance are the writers who take advantage of present incidents or characters…
- 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…
- Tradition is but a meteor, which, if it once falls, cannot be rekindled. Memory, once interrupted, is not to be recalled. But written learning is…
- The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together; nature and art are ransacked for illustrations, comparisons, and allusions; their learning instructs, and their subtlety…
- Read the book you do honestly feel a wish and curiosity to read.
- What is twice read is commonly better remembered that what is transcribed.
- The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make…
- I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
- A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
- A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.
- He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are…
- The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life or better to endure it.
- You can never be wise unless you love reading.
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