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I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.

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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

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A sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

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We think our civilization near its meridian but we are yet only at the cock-crowing and the morning star.

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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

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Books are for nothing but to inspire

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There are books which take rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences, so medicinal, so stringent, so revolutionary, so autho...more

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Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can read God directly, the hour is too precious t...more

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Line in nature is not found;Unit and universe are round;In vain produced, all rays return;Evil will bless, and ice will burn.

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No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this.

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If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

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Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions. The surest poison is time.

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Thought and knowledge are natures in which apparatus and pretension avail nothing. Gowns, and pecuniary foundations, though of towns of gold, can neve...more

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Ralph Waldo Emerson“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no cant in it no excess of explanation and it is full of suggestions the raw material of possi...more