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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
— Henry David Thoreau
We do not learn much from learned books, but from true, sincere, human books, from frank and honest biographies.
— Henry David Thoreau
Our hymn-books resound with a melodious cursing of God and enduring Him forever.
— Henry David Thoreau
You were born awesome. Please don't die average.
— Robin Sharma
Why should we leave it to Harper & Brothers and Redding & Co. to select our reading?
— Henry David Thoreau
A truly good book is something as wildly natural and primitive, mysterious and marvelous, ambrosial and fertile as a fungus or a lichen.
— Henry David Thoreau
In most books, the I, of first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained; that, in respect to egotism, is the main difference.
— Henry David Thoreau
I'm open to play for anybody that would give me respect, treat me the right way, and actually going to make me feel comfortable.
— Pedro Martinez
No people are so easy to govern as the intelligent, and none are so hard to govern as the ignorant.
— Henry Ward Beecher
I just sliced and diced a Burmese python while you were busy growling at the universe, fuzz bucket.
— J.C. Daniels
After all, I believe it is the style of thought entirely, and the style of expression, which makes the difference in books.
— Henry David Thoreau
All excellence is equally difficult.
— Thornton Wilder
Homeliness is almost as great a merit in a book as in a house, if the reader would abide there. It is next to beauty, and a very high art.
— Henry David Thoreau
Everything that is printed and bound in a book contains some echo at least of the best that is in literature.
— Henry David Thoreau
Books are for the most part willfully and hastily written, as parts of a system to supply a want real or imagined.
— Henry David Thoreau
He who cannot read is worse than deaf and blind, is yet but half alive, is still-born.
— Henry David Thoreau
What a rich book might be made about buds and, perhaps, sprouts!
— Henry David Thoreau
The Library is a wilderness of books.
— Henry David Thoreau
A good book is the plectrum with which our else silent lyres are struck.
— Henry David Thoreau
Most writers have very little that's important or valuable to offer; most of them are just repeating each other.
— Pankaj Mishra
A journal, is a book that shall contain a record of all your joy, your ecstasy, what you are grateful for.
— Henry David Thoreau
The second childhood of a saint is the early infancy of a happy immortality, as we believe.
— William Mountford
Many college text-books, which were a weariness and stumbling-block when I studied, I have since read a little with pleasure and profit.
— Henry David Thoreau
The New Deal repudiation of democracy has left the Republican Party alone the guardian of the Ark of the Covenant with its charter of freedom.
— Herbert Hoover
At least let us have healthy books.
— Henry David Thoreau
Books that are books are all that you want, and there are but a half dozen in any thousand.
— Henry David Thoreau
The book has never been written which is to be accepted without any allowance.
— Henry David Thoreau
Love is stronger than guild regulations, as they say.
— Reki Kawahara