He who has begun has half done! Dare to be wise; begin.
-Horace, 65 BC
The way a book is read - which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book - can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts into it.
- Norman Cousins
'Tis the good reader
that makes the good book;
in every book he finds passages which
seem to be be confidences or asides
hidden from all else
and unmistakably 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 discoverede by an
equal mind and heart.
- Emerson
The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more
- Winston Churchill
We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit sit still.
- Lewis Thomas
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