Henry Ward Beecher Quotes About Reading
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I read for three things; first, to know what the world has done the last twenty-four hours, and is about to do today; second, for the knowledge that I specially want in my work; and third, for what will bring my mind into a proper mood.
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Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it. and the love of knowledge, in a young mind, is almost a warrant against the inferior excitement of passions and vices.
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Men must read for amusement as well as for knowledge.
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A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
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Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
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Weak minds may be injured by novel-reading; but sensible people find both amusement and instruction therein.
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Reading is a dissuasion from immorality. Reading stands in the place of company.
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Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
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A love of flowers would beget early rising, industry, habits of close observation, and of reading. It would incline the mind to notice natural phenomena, and to reason upon them. It would occupy the mind with pure thoughts, and inspire a sweet and gentle enthusiasm; maintain simplicity of taste; and ... unfold in the heart an enlarged, unstraightened, ardent piety.
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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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There is a temperate zone in the mind, between luxurious indolence and exacting work; and it is to this region, just between laziness and labor, that summer reading belongs.
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