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Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

He felt about books as doctors feel about medicines, or managers about plays - cynical, but hopeful.
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Dame Rose Macaulay (1881 - 1958), Crewe Train, 1926
Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
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Ezra Pound (1885 - 1972)
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Hail to you gods, on that day of the great reckoning. Behold me, I have come to you, without sin, without guilt, without evil, without a witness against me, without one whom I have wronged. I am one pure of mouth, pure of hands.
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The Book of the Dead, The Address to the Gods, 1700-1000 B.C.
Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
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Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832), Lacon, 1820
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Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.
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Charles W. Eliot (1834 - 1926), The Happy Life, 1896
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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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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Letters and Social Aims: Quotation and Originality, 1876
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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,
And all the sweet serenity of books.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882), 'Morituri Salutamus,' 1875
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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
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Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Walden: Reading, 1854
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Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
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John Witherspoon (1723 - 1794)
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Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter.
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Paxton Hood
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