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book reading writing
There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts. Charles Dickens
book knowledge men
Mathematicians have sought knowledge in figures, Philosophers in systems, Logicians in subtleties, and Metaphysicians in sounds. It is not in any nor in all of these. He that studies only men, will get the body of knowledge without the soul, and he that studies only books, the soul without the body. Charles Caleb Colton
book reading writing
Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority.
book writing companion
With books, as with companions, it is of more consequence to know which to avoid, than which to choose, for good books are as scarce as good companions, and in both instances, all that we can learn from baad ones is, that some much time has been worse than thrown away.
book men soul
He that studies only men will get the body of knowledge without the soul; and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.
book easy easy-to-get
It is always easy to shut a book, but not quite so easy to get rid of a lettered coxcomb.
book names want
If a book really wants the patronage of a great name, it is a bad book; and if it be a good book, it wants it not.
book writing mirrors
That an author's work is the mirror of his mind is a position that has led to very false conclusions. If Satan himself were to write a book it would be in praise of virtue, because the good would purchase it for use, and the bad for ostentation.
book healthy may
Novels may teach us as wholesome a moral as the pulpit. There are "sermons in stones," in healthy books, and "good in everything.
purpose use language
It is as though the ancestors who made language and knew from what bestiality its use rescued them are saying to us: Beware of interfering with its purpose! For when language is seriously interfered with, when it is disjoined from truth, be it from mere incompetence or worse, from malice, horrors can descend again on mankind. Chinua Achebe
purpose growing lost
But we have to ask ourselves, what's the purpose of the stock market? It's supposed to be a source of capital for growing business. It's lost that purpose. Mark Cuban
purpose
Every single thing you've been through in your life has had a purpose. Beth Moore
purpose
The purpose of freedom is to create it for others. Bernard Malamud
purpose phrases use
Under Confucianism, the use of precisely measured court music, prescribed steps, actions, and phrases all added up to an extremely complex system of rituals, each used for a particular purpose at a particular time. Benjamin Hoff
purpose reason seasons
Everything in life got its purpose. Find its reason in every season. Bob Marley
purpose want foreign-policy
the purpose of foreign policy is to persuade others to do what we want or, better yet, to want what we want. Madeleine Albright
purpose
Every why has a wherefore. William Shakespeare
purpose done boards
So for my studio purposes, I know that I'm in my studio with technicians who've done amazing things to my board and to my power amps and I know what I can deliver out of my studio. Billy Sherwood
reader though
I am an avid reader of comics, though I came to them late. Nick Harkaway
reader second
The first book you write because of the way it makes you feel. The second one you can't help but wonder how it's going to make the reader feel. Kathryn Stockett
readers time
'Time' is an internationalist publication catering to internationalist readers who are not only interested in their own backyard. Bobby Ghosh
readers trilogy
'Dirtiest Secret' is Dallas Sykes' story. And it is a stand-alone trilogy that readers can come to completely fresh. Julie Kenner
reader
When I read, I'm purely a reader Anne Tyler
reader pendragon gore
I really suggest the Pendragon series to all readers unless you are afraid of gore! D. J. MacHale
reader
It's not about what you tell the reader, it's about what you conceal. Dan Brown
reader
To make the reader afraid, I had to be afraid. Andrew Pyper
reader
Unless you're a terribly bad writer, you are never going to have too many readers. Andrew Wylie