Reading Good Books Quotes

• Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good: Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.

  William Wordsworth

  Happiness, Dream, Strong

  William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth (1815). “Poems”, p.140

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• Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Life, Friendship

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.28, St. Martin's Press

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• The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

  Rene Descartes

  Wisdom, Book, Reading

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• It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Book, Reading

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.103, Simon and Schuster

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• Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.

  Vera Nazarian

  Inspirational, Education, Book

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• If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Wisdom, Book

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.93, Harvard University Press

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• Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

  Mortimer Adler

  Inspirational, Life, Reading

  "How To Read A Book". Book by Mortimer J. Adler, 1940.

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• Tis the good reader that makes the good book.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Book, Reading

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.150, Harvard University Press

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  He who destroys a good book kills reason itself.

  John Milton

  Book, Reading, Library

  Areopagitica (1644)

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• A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Friendship, Book, Reading

  'Proverbial Philosophy' Series I (1838) 'Of Reading'

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• Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Happiness, Education

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Aug 30, 2015

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• A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Book, Reading, Hero

  1905 Heretics, ch.15.

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• That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Funny, Book, Reading

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• If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

  Toni Morrison

  Inspirational, Happiness, Attitude

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• The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Education

  Mark Twain (2015). “The Prince and the Pauper (StoneHenge Classics)”, p.154, StoneHenge Classics

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• I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Life, Book, Thinking

  Harold S Kushner (2011). “When All You've Ever Wanted Isn't Enough: The Search For a Life That Matters”, p.174, Pan Macmillan

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• Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Happiness, Clever

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• Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Book, Writing, Good Friend

  Louisa May Alcott (2001). “Little Women”, p.584, Broadview Press

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• A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life, and as such it must surely be a necessary commodity.

  Penelope Fitzgerald

  Book, Blood, Purpose

  Penelope Fitzgerald (1978). “The Bookshop”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakenly meant for his ear; the profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader; the profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until it is discovered by an equal mind and heart.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Reading, Heart

  "Society and Solitude". Book by Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Success", 1870.

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• Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Life, Sarcastic

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.31, St. Martin's Press

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• No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Best Friend, Funny Friendship, Reading

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• Finishing a good book is like leaving a good friend.

  William Feather

  Book, Good Friend, Leaving

  William Feather (1949). “The Business of Life”

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• Easy reading is damn hard writing.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Powerful, Reading, Writing

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• My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter.

  Tom Helm

  Inspirational, Book, Reading

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