Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes, Book Quotes, Reading Quotes

I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors. There is so much aspiration in them, so much audacious hope and trembling fear, so much of the heart's history, that all errors and shortcomings are for a while lost sight of in the amiable self assertion of youth.

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Stretching [and] yoga [are] very helpful. All of these things - they really do help. Good food and a lot of sleep. And reading - reading good books. Sometimes movies - although a lot of the movies are difficult.

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As for my next book, I won't write it till it has grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall.

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Vedas are the most rewarding and the most elevating book which can be possible in the world.

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

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A fascinating book and a great pleasure to read: Betool Khedairi is a talented new voice in fiction.

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Once you've put one of his [Henry James] books down, you simply can't pick it up again.

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Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.

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The New Testament is the very best book that ever was or ever will be known in the world.

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Most of the classical citations you shall hear or read in the current journals or speeches were not drawn from the originals, but from previous quotations in English books.

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No book can teach you about yourself, no psychologist, none of the professors or philosophers. What they can teach you is what they think you are or what they think you should be.

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Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a personality which, by birth and quality, is pledged to the doctrines there set forth, and which exists to see and state things so, and not otherwise.

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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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A beggar's book outworths a noble's blood.

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What I intend to do is uphold a standard of intellectual seriousness on the right. [These books] should be written in a way that they are serious, soberly argued, well researched, and make a respectable case-agree or disagree.

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One gains at least two to three times more experience grabbing the tiger by the tail than reading about it in a book.

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Nature is a language and every new fact one learns is a new word; but it is not a language taken to pieces and dead in the dictionary, but the language put together into a most significant and universal sense. I wish to learn this language - not that I may know a new grammar, but that I may read the great book which is written in that tongue.

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Someone said, 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are that which we know.

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How entirely does the Upanishad breathe throughout the holy spirit of the Vedas! How is every one who by a diligent study of its Persian Latin has become familiar with that incomparable book stirred by that spirit to the very depth of his Soul !

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Ultimately, no one can extract from things, books included, more than he already knows.

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