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Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in read more
Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting
Read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest.
Read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest.
 Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the 
one, health is preserved, strengthened, read more 
 Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the 
one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the 
other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, 
cherished, and confirmed. 
When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more read more
When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before
 That he that readeth may run over it.
 [Lat., Ut percurrat qui legerit eum.]  
 That he that readeth may run over it.
 [Lat., Ut percurrat qui legerit eum.] 
A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.
A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.
 In a polite age almost every person becomes a reader, and 
receives more instruction from the Press than the read more 
 In a polite age almost every person becomes a reader, and 
receives more instruction from the Press than the Pulpit. 
 And the Lord answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it 
plain upon tables, that he may read more 
 And the Lord answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it 
plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it. 
 My early and invincible love of reading, . . . I would not 
exchange for the treasures of India.  
 My early and invincible love of reading, . . . I would not 
exchange for the treasures of India.