Quotes 15301 till 15320 of 25371.
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Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.
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Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.
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Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.
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Reading builds the educated and informed electorate so vital to our democracy.
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Reading is an act of civilization; it's one of the greatest acts of civilization because it takes the free raw material of the mind and builds castles of possibilities.
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Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept on the stretch.
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Reading makes a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.
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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
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Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.
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Real Christians revel in desperate ventures for Christ, expecting from God great things and attempting the same with exhilaration.
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Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
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Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and, more that all, must be prayed for.
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Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible; but the world of pure reason ;knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity.
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Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.
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Real success is being totally indulgent about your own trip. You put your blinders on about the garbage and go full speed ahead.
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Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.
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Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.
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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
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