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Quotes about books - reading
It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old. (Adams Dawn)
Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science. (Adams Dawn)
The newest books are those that never grow old. (Adams Dawn)
Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life. (Adams Dawn)
The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting. (Adams Dawn)
I cannot live without books. (Adams Dawn)
Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital. (Adams Dawn)
Tradition is but a meteor, which, if it once falls, cannot be rekindled. Memory, once interrupted, is not to be recalled. But written learning is a fixed luminary, which, after the cloud that had hidden it has passed away, is again bright in its proper station. So books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when opened again, will again impart instruction. (Adams Dawn)
Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely necessary; to men of real science, they are tools: but more are tools to them. (Adams Dawn)
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure. (Adams Dawn)
Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all. (Adams Dawn)
A man ought to read just as his inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good. (Adams Dawn)
Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen. (Adams Dawn)
You will be the same person in five as you are today except for the people you meet and the books you read. (Adams Dawn)
There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world. (Adams Dawn)
The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones. (Adams Dawn)
One man is as good as another until he has written a book. (Adams Dawn)
The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine -- but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously. (Adams Dawn)
Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book. (Adams Dawn)
To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations -- such is pleasure beyond compare. (Adams Dawn)
I am a part of everything that I have read. (Adams Dawn)
We ought to reverence books; to look on them as useful and mighty things. If they are good and true, whether they are about religion, politics, farming, trade, law, or medicine, they are the message of Christ, the maker of all things -- the teacher of all truth. (Adams Dawn)
Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! a message to us from the dead -- from human souls we never saw, who lived, perhaps, thousands of miles away. And yet these, in those little sheets of paper, speak to us, arouse us, terrify us, teach us, comfort us, open their hearts to us as brothers. (Adams Dawn)
You can either read something many times in order to be assured that you got it all, or else you can define your purpose and use techniques which will assure that you have met it and gotten what you need. (Adams Dawn)
He has left off reading altogether, to the great improvement of his originality. (Adams Dawn)
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