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Quotes related to Proverbs 18:15
Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
— Henry David Thoreau
We hear and apprehend only what we already half know.
— Henry David Thoreau
Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare
— Henry David Thoreau
An artist is first an amateur.
— Henry David Thoreau
If you are acquainted with the principle, what do you care for a myriad instances and applications? To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip.
— Henry David Thoreau
With respect to wit, I learned that there was not much difference between the half and the whole.
— Henry David Thoreau
If it is necessary, omit one bridge over the river, go round a little there, and throw one arch at least over the darker gulf of ignorance which surrounds us.
— Henry David Thoreau
Not all books are as dull as their readers.
— Henry David Thoreau
Books which are books are all that you want, and there are but half a dozen in any thousand.
— Henry David Thoreau
Most men have learned to read to serve a paltry convenience, as they have learned to cipher in order to keep accounts and not be cheated in trade; but of reading as a noble intellectual exercise they know little or nothing.
— Henry David Thoreau
I think that having learned our letters we should read the best that is in literature, and not be forever repeating our a b abs, and words of one syllable, in the fourth or fifth classes, sitting on the lowest and foremost form all our lives. Most men are satisfied if they read or hear read, and perchance have been convicted by the wisdom of one good book, the Bible, and for the rest of their lives vegetate and dissipate their faculties in what is called easy reading.
— Henry David Thoreau
An uncommon prudence is habtual with the subtler depravity, for it has everything to hide.
— Herman Melville