"Tis the good reader that makes the..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakenly 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 discovered by an equal mind and heart.
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“When it is darkest, we can see the stars.”
“A cheerful, intelligent face is the end of culture.”
“In the first place, all books that get fairly into the vital air of the world were written by the successful class, by the affirming and advancing class, who utter what tens of thousands feel though they cannot say.”
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“A man who chooses not to read is just as ignorant as a man who cannot read.”
“Without books, I would certainly die.”
“We can never know that a piece of writing is bad unless we have begun by trying to read it as if it was very good and ended by discovering that we were paying the author an undeserved compliment.”
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“Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.”
“My first two books are out of print and, okay, they can sleep there comfortably. It's early work, derivative work.”
“If men were to be destroyed and the books they have written were to be transmitted to a new race of creatures, in a new world, what kind of record would be found in them of so remarkable a phenomenon as the rainbow?”