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Ralph Waldo Emerson
: We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.
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Maxims and aphorisms, let us remember that wisdom is the true salt of literature, and the books that are most nourishing are richly stored with it, and that is the main object to seek in reading books.
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Henry Miller :
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The word civilization to my mind is coupled with death. When I use the word, I see civilization as a crippling, thwarting thing, a stultifying thing. For me it was always so. I don't believe in the golden ages, you see... civilization is the arteriosclerosis of culture.
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Julian S Huxley :
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In the actual duration of his life, the individual ranges from the bacterium's hour to the the big tree's five thousand years. Man in this again stands at the pinnacle of individuality — not in mere length of days, but in having found a means to perpetuate a part of himself in spite of death. By speech first, but far more by writing, man has been able to put something of himself beyond death. In tradition and in books an integral part of the individual persists, for it can influence the minds and actions of other people in different places and at different times: a row of black marks on a page can move a man to tears, though the bones of him that wrote it are long ago crumbled to dust. In truth, the whole progress of civilization is based upon this power. Once more the upward progress of terrestrial life towards individuality has found apparently insurmountable obstacles, gross material difficulties before it, but once more through consciousness it finds wings, and, laughing at matter, flies over lightly where it could not climb. To such an individuality, one that can thus transcend the limits of its substance, the name Personality is commonly given. Man alone possesses true personality, though there is as it were an aspiration towards it visible among the higher vertebrates, stirring their placid automatism with airs of consciousness.
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Jorge Luis Borges :
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Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a few minutes. A better procedure is to pretend that those books already exist and to offer a summary, a commentary.
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Miguel de Cervantes :
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Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
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A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
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Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find.
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I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.
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Samuel Johnson :
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He may justly be numbered among the benefactors of mankind, who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may early be impressed on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to occur habitually to the mind.
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Henry Giles :
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The silent influence of books, is a mighty power in the world; and there is a joy in reading them known only to those who read them with desire and enthusiasm. Silent, passive, and noiseless though they be, they yet set in action countless multitudes, and change the order of nations.
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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
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Every artist was first an amateur.
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What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
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Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.
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Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
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Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.
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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
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Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine
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You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
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