Henry David Thoreau Reading Quotes


Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written. Henry David Thoreau Reading 104
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 Reading 81
Read the best books first or else you may not have a chance to read them at all. Henry David Thoreau Reading 69
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! The book exists for us, perchance, that will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered. Henry David Thoreau Reading 64
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all. Henry David Thoreau Reading 45

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