Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes, Book Quotes, Reading Quotes

There are favorable hours for reading a book, as for writing it.

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

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I have known men to hazard their fortunes, go long journeys halfway about the world, forget friendships, even lie, cheat, and steal, all for the gain of a book.

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Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can read God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings.

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Let every book-worm, when in any fragrant, scarce old tome, he discovers a sentence, a story, an illustration, that does his heart good, hasten to give it the widest circulation that newspapers and magazines, penny and halfpenny, can afford.

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Never read any book that is not a year old.

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a good reader makes a good book

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Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.

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Nothing shakes my opinion of a book. Nothing -- nothing. Only perhaps if it's the book of a young person -- or of a friend -- no, even so, I think myself infallible.

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We need to eradicate the slander that says a black youth with a book is acting white.

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My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

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I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.

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I saw a Divine Being. I'm afraid I'm going to have to revise all my various books and opinions.

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Which is him?" The grammar was faulty, maybe, but we could not know, then, that it would go in a book someday.

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. . . finally, I couldn't imagine how I could live without books, and I stopped dreaming about marrying that Chinese prince. . . .

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In very clear and available language, this book details how to recognize the inner critic and how to deal effectively with it. Byron Brown's presentation is useful for any individual who wishes to be free from the inner suffering and coercion of this ancient foe of our humanity, but it is specifically directed to those interested and engaged in the inner journey toward realization and enlightenment.

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A book should long for pen, ink, and writing-table: but usually it is pen, ink, and writing-table that long for a book. That is why books are so negligible nowadays.

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And although she was sometimes dissatisfied with herself, she felt unable to go beyond her own limitations. Books were safer.

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Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.

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I accumulated in those years so fine a surplus in the Book of Observance that I have been drawing confidently upon it ever since.

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