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“Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.”
William Penn quotes (English Quaker leader and Founder of Pennsylvania, 1644-1718)
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“The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.”
John Greenleaf Whittier quotes (American Writer, 1807-1892)
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“The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.”
Geoffrey Chaucer quotes (English poet, 1342/3-1400)
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“Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.”
William Penn quotes (English Quaker leader and Founder of Pennsylvania, 1644-1718)
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“Master books, but do not let them master you. - Read to live, not live to read.”
Owen Meredith quotes (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton. British diplomat, viceroy of India and poet, 1831-1891)
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“Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all”
Henry David Thoreau quotes (American Essayist, Poet and Philosopher, 1817-1862)
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“Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers”
William Penn quotes (English Quaker leader and Founder of Pennsylvania, 1644-1718)
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“I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands”
Seneca quotes (Roman philosopher, mid-1st century AD)
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“Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them”
John Milton quotes (English Poet, Historian and Scholar. Ranks second, only to Shakespeare, among English poets. 1608-1674)
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“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.”
Galileo Galilei quotes (Italian natural Philosopher, Astronomer and Mathematician who made fundamental contributions to the development of the scientific method and to the sciences of motion, astronomy and strength of materials. 1564-1642)
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“Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.”
Albert Einstein quotes (German born American Physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity. Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921. 1879-1955)
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