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- 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.
- Ezra Pound (1885 - 1972)
- How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Walden: Reading, 1854
- Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.
- Thomas a Kempis (1380 - 1471)
- Learn as much by writing as by reading.
- Lord Acton
- Drink nothing without seeing it; sign nothing without reading it.
- Spanish Proverb
- Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.
- Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
- Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
- Horace Mann (1796 - 1859)
- Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
- Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937), Vesalius in Zante
- A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
- Erica Jong, O Magazine, 2003
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