Books have always a secret influence on the understanding; we
cannot at pleasure obliterate ideas: he that reads books of
science, though without any desire fixed of improvement, will
grow more knowing; he that entertains himself with moral or
religious treatises, will imperceptibly advance in goodness; the
ideas which are often offered to the mind, will at last find a
lucky moment when it is disposed to receive them.
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Read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest.
Read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest.
A home without books is a body without soul.
A home without books is a body without soul.
The sagacious reader who is capable of reading between these
lines what does not stand written in them, but read more
The sagacious reader who is capable of reading between these
lines what does not stand written in them, but is nevertheless
implied, will be able to form some conception.
A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he
reads as a task will do read more
A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he
reads as a task will do him little good.
The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading,
imparts the vivacity and novelty of read more
The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading,
imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
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
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.
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
But truths on which depends our main concern,
That 'tis our shame and misery not to learn,
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But truths on which depends our main concern,
That 'tis our shame and misery not to learn,
Shine by the side of every path we tread
With such a lustre he that runs may read.
