Books - The Food of Life
Today am expecting a delivery of 5 books that I have anticipated since I made the order.
These will go 5-ways into getting me closer to my "100-books-a-year" target for 2010. I start school in January and for the next 3 years may not be able to read as much as I'd want to so I will relish every book I get to read this year and by December 31st, the target has to be met, come shine or shine!
The following are quotes I collected about books, reading and all things lovely.
Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one. ~Augustine Birrell, Obiter Dicta, "Book Buying"
Let your bookcases and your shelves be your gardens and your pleasure-grounds. Pluck the fruit that grows therein, gather the roses, the spices, and the myrrh. ~Judah Ibn Tibbon
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. ~Richard Steele, Tatler, 1710
That place that does contain
My books, the best companions, is to me
A glorious court, where hourly I converse
With the old sages and philosophers;
And sometimes, for variety, I confer
With kings and emperors, and weigh their counsels;
Calling their victories, if unjustly got,
Unto a strict account, and, in my fancy,
Deface their ill-placed statues.
~Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint.... What I began by reading, I must finish by acting. ~Henry David Thoreau
A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. ~Jeremy Collier
Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay. ~William Styron
The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary. It is the only art which can be practised at any hour of the day or night, whenever the time and inclination comes, that is your time for reading; in joy or sorrow, health or illness. ~Holbrook Jackson
Books are delightful society. If you go into a room and find it full of books - even without taking them from the shelves they seem to speak to you, to bid you welcome. ~William Ewart Gladstone
Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves. ~Jeremy Collier
These will go 5-ways into getting me closer to my "100-books-a-year" target for 2010. I start school in January and for the next 3 years may not be able to read as much as I'd want to so I will relish every book I get to read this year and by December 31st, the target has to be met, come shine or shine!
The following are quotes I collected about books, reading and all things lovely.
Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one. ~Augustine Birrell, Obiter Dicta, "Book Buying"
Let your bookcases and your shelves be your gardens and your pleasure-grounds. Pluck the fruit that grows therein, gather the roses, the spices, and the myrrh. ~Judah Ibn Tibbon
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. ~Richard Steele, Tatler, 1710
That place that does contain
My books, the best companions, is to me
A glorious court, where hourly I converse
With the old sages and philosophers;
And sometimes, for variety, I confer
With kings and emperors, and weigh their counsels;
Calling their victories, if unjustly got,
Unto a strict account, and, in my fancy,
Deface their ill-placed statues.
~Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint.... What I began by reading, I must finish by acting. ~Henry David Thoreau
A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. ~Jeremy Collier
Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay. ~William Styron
The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary. It is the only art which can be practised at any hour of the day or night, whenever the time and inclination comes, that is your time for reading; in joy or sorrow, health or illness. ~Holbrook Jackson
Books are delightful society. If you go into a room and find it full of books - even without taking them from the shelves they seem to speak to you, to bid you welcome. ~William Ewart Gladstone
Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves. ~Jeremy Collier
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