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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We have not read an author till we have seen his object, whatever
it may be, as he saw read more
We have not read an author till we have seen his object, whatever
it may be, as he saw it.
It may be well to wait a century for a reader, as God has waited
six thousand years for read more
It may be well to wait a century for a reader, as God has waited
six thousand years for an observer.
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.
If we encountered a man or rare intellect, we should ask him what
books he read.
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If we encountered a man or rare intellect, we should ask him what
books he read.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson,
The mind, relaxing into needful sport,
Should turn to writers of an abler sort,
Whose wit well read more
The mind, relaxing into needful sport,
Should turn to writers of an abler sort,
Whose wit well managed, and whose classic style,
Give truth a lustre, and make wisdom smile.
Night after night,
He sat and bleared his eyes with books.
Night after night,
He sat and bleared his eyes with books.
What is twice read is commonly better remembered that what is
transcribed.
What is twice read is commonly better remembered that what is
transcribed.
In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature,
the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.
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In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature,
the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.
- Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton,
Read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest.
Read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest.
