Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Book Quotes, Reading Quotes

An imaginative book renders us much more service at first, by stimulating us through its tropes, than afterward, when we arrive atthe precise sense of the author. I think nothing is of any value in books, excepting the transcendental and extraordinary.

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I ransack public libraries & find them full of sunk treasure.

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For friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.

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Within the book and volume of thy brain.

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Books are immortal sons deifying their sires.

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Books are infinite in number and time is short. The secret of knowledge is to take what is essential. Take that and try to live up to it.

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But every page having an ample marge, And every marge enclosing in the midst A square of text that looks a little blot.

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The full truth of this odd matter is what the world has long been looking for and the public curiosity is sure to welcome.

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While browsing in a second-hand bookshop one day, George Bernard Shaw was amused to find a copy of one of his own works which he himself had inscribed for a friend: "To ----, with esteem, George Bernard Shaw." He immediately purchased the book and returned it to the friend with a second inscription: "With renewed esteem, George Bernard Shaw.

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I suppose books mean more than people to me anyway

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The heart is the only book worth reading.

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There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

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Forget about every other lesson in the book. You have to be able to tap your foot or else none of what you doing you are not gonna have any control of your symptom.

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You need to change yourself. The moment that you change yourself it is a gigantic step. And this is what I do. The book is much more important than the writer.

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As a rule I had a distaste for any reading beyond my school books.

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How many good books suffer neglect through the inefficiency of their beginnings!

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Already by 1900 I could boast I had written as many books as Moses.

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An expense of ends to means is fate;Morganization tyrannizing over character. The menagerie, or forms and powers of the spine, is a book of fate: the bill of the bird, the skull of the snake, determines tyrannically its limits.

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The sentences in the book of providence are sometimes long, and you must read a great way before you understand their meaning.

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Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground!

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