Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Reading Books
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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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Tis the good reader that makes the good book.
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Never read any book that is not a year old.
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O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.
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In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.
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If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
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I may say it of our preposterous use of books,--He knew not what to do, and so he read.
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An imaginative book renders us much more service at first, by stimulating us through its tropes, than afterward, when we arrive atthe precise sense of the author. I think nothing is of any value in books, excepting the transcendental and extraordinary.
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It is with a good book as it is with good company.
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In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight.
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Life loiters at the book's first page,-- Ah! could we turn the leaf.
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I think I have done well, if I have acquired a new word from a good author; and my business with him is to find my own, though itwere only to melt him down into an epithet or an image for daily use.
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One must be an inventor to read well.
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