We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the...

The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the...

The greatest difficulty is that men do not think enough of themselves, do not consider...

The greatest difficulty is that men do not think enough of themselves, do not consider...

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.

Every artist was first an amateur.

Every artist was first an amateur.

Language is fossil poetry

Language is fossil poetry

The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue

The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue

Every burned book enlightens the world.

Every burned book enlightens the world.

The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is...

The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is...

The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and...

The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and...

The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is...

The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is...

All the thoughts of a turtle are turtle

All the thoughts of a turtle are turtle

Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a...

Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a...

The power, which resides in man, is new in nature, and none but he knows...

The power, which resides in man, is new in nature, and none but he knows...

The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith

The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious...

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious...

A man is a God in ruins.

A man is a God in ruins.

I am treating you as my friend, asking you to share my present minuses in...

I am treating you as my friend, asking you to share my present minuses in...

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution...

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution...

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work...

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work...