Thomas Carlyle Quotes About Reading
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We have not read an author till we have seen his object, whatever it may be, as he saw it.
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What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
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Learn to be good readers, which is perhaps a more difficult thing than you imagine. Learn to be discriminative in your reading; to read faithfully, and with your best attention, all kinds of things which you have a real interest in,--a real, not an imaginary,--and which you find to be really fit for what you are engaged in.
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The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity.
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If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts; all art and author-craft are of small amount to that.
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Biography is the most universally pleasant and profitable of all reading.
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If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.
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