 “ Books are the carriers of civilization. Without Books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. ” ~ Henry David Thoreau
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“ Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. ” ~ Henry David Thoreau
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“ Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written. ” ~ Henry David Thoreau
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“ Books are the carriers of civilization. Without Books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business. ” ~ Henry David Thoreau
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“ Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics even more than by the manner in which they are treated. ” ~ Henry David Thoreau
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“ Books are the carriers of civilization. Without Books, history is silent. ” ~ Henry David Thoreau
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“ Books which are Books are all that you want, and there are but half a dozen in any thousand. ” ~ Henry David Thoreau
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Inspiring Quotes : |
“ Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man cannot read, and a timid one would not be entertained by, which even make us dangerous to existing institution such call I good Books. ” ~ Henry David Thoreau
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“ It is not all Books that are as dull as their readers. ” ~ Henry David Thoreau
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“ It is not all Books that are as dull as their readers. There are probably words addressed to our condition exactly, which, if we could really hear and understand, would be more salutary than the morning or the spring to our lives, and possibly put a new aspect on the face of things for us. How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book!. ” ~ Henry David Thoreau
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“ Men sometimes speak as if the study of the classics would at length make way for more modern and practical studies; but the adventurous student will always study classics, in whatever language they may be written and however ancient they may be. For what are the classics but the noblest recorded thoughts of man? They are the only oracles which are not decayed, and there are such answers to the most modern inquiry in them as Delphi and Dodona never gave. We might as well omit to study Nature because she is old. To read well, that is, to read true Books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will task the reader more than any exercise which the customs of the day esteem. ” ~ Henry David Thoreau
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“ read the best Books first, or you may not have a chance to reat them at all. ” ~ Henry David Thoreau
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“ Read the best Books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all. ” ~ Henry David Thoreau
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“ Read the best Books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all. ” ~ Henry David Thoreau
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Inspirational Quotes : |
“ The heroic Books, even if printed in the character of our mother tongue, will always be in a language dead to degenerate times; and we must laboriously seek the meaning of each word and line, conjecturing a larger sense than common use permits out of what wisdom and valor and generosity we have. ” ~ Henry David Thoreau
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“ The forcible writer stands bodily behind his words with his experiences. He does not make Books out of Books, but he has been there in person. ” ~ Henry David Thoreau
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“ To read well, that is, to read true Books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise... ” ~ Henry David Thoreau
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“ To read well, that is, to read true Books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will task the reader more than any other exercise which the customs of the day esteem. It requires a training such as the athletes underwent, the steady intention almost of the whole life to this object. ” ~ Henry David Thoreau
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“ To read well, that is, to read true Books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will tax the reader more than any exercise which the customs of the day esteem. It requires a training such as the athletes underwent, the steady intention almost of the whole life to this object. Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written. ” ~ Henry David Thoreau
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“ A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man's history. It is a man's duty to have Books. ” ~ Henry Ward Beecher
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