Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Book Quotes, Reading Quotes

It is with a good book as it is with good company.

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If only I could manage, without annoyance to my family, to get imprisoned for 10 years, "without hard labour," and with the use of books and writing materials, it would be simply delightful!

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Never to read another book that was born and baptized (with ink) at the same time.

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Books became my world because the world I was in was very hard.

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In the right hands, literature is not resorted to as a consolation, and by the broken and decayed, but as a decalogue.

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I do not see how astronomers can help feeling exquisitely insignificant, for every new page of the Book of the Heavens they open reveals to them more and more that the world we are so proud of is to the universe of careening globes as is one mosquito to the winged and hoofed flocks and herds that darken the air and populate the plains and forests of all the earth. If you killed the mosquito would it be missed? Verily, What is Man, that he should be considered of God?

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In Marseilles they make half the toilet soap we consume in America, but the Marseillaise only have a vague theoretical idea of its use, which they have obtained from books of travel.

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Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.

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Books are everywhere; and always the same sense of adventure fills us. Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack. Besides, in this random miscellaneous company we may rub against some complete stranger who will, with luck, turn into the best friend we have in the world.

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There is nothing that has caused me to meditate more on Plato's secrecy and sphinx-like nature, than the happily preserved petit fait that under the pillow of his death-bed there was found no 'Bible,' nor anything Egyptian, Pythagorean, or Platonic - but a book of Aristophanes. How could even Plato have endured life - a Greek life which he repudiated - without an Aristophanes!

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I admit," I said, "that a second murder in a book often cheers things up." - Hastings

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My brother is a comic-book writer, and I was always in love with comics.

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The young student sits with his head bent over his books, and his mind straying in youth's dreamland; where prose is prowling on the desk and poetry hiding in the heart.

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It is those books which a man possesses but does not read which constitute the most suspicious evidence against him.

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'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.

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There is no such thing as a worthless book though there are some far worse than worthless; no book that is not worth preserving, if its existence may be tolerated; as there may be some men whom it may be proper to hang, but none should be suffered to starve.

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When I think of all the books I have read, and of the wise words I have heard spoken, and of the anxiety I have given to parents and grandparents, and of the hopes that I have had, all life weighed in the scales of my own life seems to me a preparation for something that never happens.

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We get our morals from books. I didn't get mine from books, but I know that morals do come from books- theoretically at least.

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To read a book is to hold an entire world in the palm of your hand. That world is unique to you; no two readers can ever inhabit the same world

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O, let my books be then the eloquence And dumb presagers of my speaking breast, Who plead for love, and look for recompense, More than that tongue that more hath more expressed.

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