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Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

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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Houses are built to live in, not to look on; therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had.
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Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626), Essays: Of Building, 1623
A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Society and Solitude: Works and Days, 1870
Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969), speech at Dartmouth College, June 14, 1953
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The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815 - 1902), 1890
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Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.
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Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972), August 8, 1950
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