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book night men
Although I am an old man, night is generally my time for walking. Charles Dickens
book reading writing
There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
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 advice
When in reading we meet with any maxim that may be of use, we should take it for our own, and make an immediate application of it, as we would of the advice of a friend whom we have purposely consulted.
book merit lovers
We should choose our books as we would our companions, for their sterling and intrinsic merit.
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 reading writing
Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
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.
puritanism strongest
One of the strongest features of Puritanism is its autobiographical tendency, its passionate self-regard. Tom Paulin
puritan outspoken
I'm far too outspoken to be a woman in Puritan times. Janet Montgomery
puritan all-things
To the Puritan all things are impure, as somebody says. D. H. Lawrence
puritan righteous persons
A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things. Gilbert K. Chesterton
puritan pleasure duty
The Puritan sours his pleasures by disguising them as duties. Mason Cooley
puritan pornography catholicism
Anti-Catholicism has always been the pornography of the Puritan. Richard Hofstadter
tales forgetful tedious
Is there anything more tedious than the often repeated tales of the old and forgetful?
tales
Trust the tale, not the teller. David Knopfler
tales ends universe
A tale, like the universe, they tell us, expands ceaselessly each time you examine it, until there’s finally no telling exactly where it begins, or ends, or where it places you now. Chang-Rae Lee
tales
I don't think you mess around when you talk about tales of valor. David Gregory
tales
Every tale is not to be believed. Aesop
tales
Fairy tales are really violent, the original ones. Jane Levy
tales tact discretion
I have tales to tell, but I don't tell them. Discretion. Discretion. Gregory Peck
tales mice
A woman and a mouse, they carry a tale wherever they go. Gelett Burgess
tales familiarity truest
The truest tales require time and familiarity to become what they are. Erin Morgenstern