Reading Quotes - Page 19

• 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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• Let us read, and let us dance — these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

  Voltaire

  Dance, Two, Dancing

  "The Works of Voltaire: A Contemporary Version". Volume 6,

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• A book that is shut is but a block.

  Thomas Fuller

  Funny, Block, Book

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• Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Happiness, Attitude, Book

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and Ears”, p.155

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• Wear the old coat and buy the new book.

  Austin Phelps

  Happiness, Attitude, Book

  Austin Phelps (1882). “The Theory of Preaching: Lectures on Homiletics”

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• There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.

  Emily Dickinson

  Book, Land, Poetry

  "There is no frigate like a book" l. 1 (ca. 1873)

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• It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom.

  Horace Greeley

  Bible, Biblical, People

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• Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.

  Augustine Birrell

  Book, Library, Librarian

  Augustine Birrell (1969). “Obiter Dicta: Second Series”, p.169, Library of Alexandria

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• Reading is the way out of ignorance, and the road to achievement.

  Benjamin Carson

  Ignorance, Achievement, Way

  "Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence". Book by Ben Carson and Cecil Murphey, 1996.

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• The man who has not the habit of reading is imprisoned in his immediate world.

  Lin Yutang

  Men, World, Habit

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• It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Wisdom, Book, Helping

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• Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.

  Charles Kingsley

  Book, Men, Wonderful

  Charles Kingsley (1849). “Twenty-five Village Sermons”, p.254

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  You can make positive deposits in your own economy every day by reading and listening to powerful, positive, life-changing content and by associating with encouraging and hope-building people.

  Zig Ziglar

  Motivational, Positive, Hope

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Jul 09, 2014

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• Whether or not this story has a happy ending depends, of course, on who is reading it. Whether you are a wolf or a girl.

  Kelly Link

  Girl, Stories, Happy Endings

  Kelly Link (2008). “Pretty Monsters”, p.229, Penguin

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• Reading is the occupation of the insomniac par excellence.

  Alberto Manguel

  Excellence, Occupation, Insomniac

  Alberto Manguel (2011). “A Reading Diary”, p.194, Vintage Canada

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• I am always reading immoral books on the sly, and then selfishly trying to prevent other people from having the same wicked good time.

  Mark Twain

  Book, People, Wicked

  Mark Twain (2013). “Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2: The Complete and Authoritative Edition”, p.475, Univ of California Press

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• It is curious how tyrannical the habit of reading is, and what shifts we make to escape thinking. There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds.

  James Russell Lowell

  Thinking, Mind, Habit

  James Russell Lowell (1864). “Fireside Travels”, p.124

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• No person who can read is ever successful at cleaning out an attic.

  Ann Landers

  Book, Successful, Cleaning

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• The world that is a book is devoured bya reader who is a letter in the world's text; thus a circular metaphor is created for the endlessness of reading; We are what we read.

  Alberto Manguel

  Book, World, Letters

  1996 A History of Reading.

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• We read to understand, or to begin to understand. We cannot do but to read. Reading almost as much as breathing, is our essential function.

  Alberto Manguel

  Breathing, Essentials, Function

  "A History of Reading". Book by Alberto Manguel, 1996.

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

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Friendship, Book, Forever

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

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• As long as I'm reading, I'm at home.

  George Foreman

  Book, Home, Long

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• Reading is like breathing in, writing is like breathing out.

  Pam Allyn

  Writing, Breathing

  Pam Allyn (2011). “Your Child's Writing Life: How to Inspire Confidence, Creativity, and Skill at Every Age”, p.11, Penguin

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• Reading is like the sex act - done privately, and often in bed.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Sex, Bed, Done

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Reading, to most people, means an ashamed way of killing time disguised under a dignified name

  Ernest Dimnet

  Mean, Names, People

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