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Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.

Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Bible, Spiritual, Reading

I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Reading, Book, Learning

In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Book, Reading, Beer
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.93, Harvard University Press

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Book, Reading, Books And Reading
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.149, Courier Corporation

We read often with as much talent as we write.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Reading, Writing, Talent
"The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson".

Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can read God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Book, Reading, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.66, Penguin

What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Book, Reading, Eye
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1904). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: With a Biographical Introduction and Notes”

An imaginative book renders us much more service at first, by stimulating us through its tropes, than afterward, when we arrive atthe precise sense of the author. I think nothing is of any value in books, excepting the transcendental and extraordinary.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Book, Reading, Thinking
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1993). “Self-reliance, and Other Essays”, p.78, Courier Corporation

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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Funny, Book, Reading
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1959). “Emerson: A Modern Anthology”

We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wise, Book, Reading
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.144

Every word we speak is million-faced or convertible to an indefinite number of applications. If it were not so we could read no book. Your remark would only fit your case, not mine.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Book, Reading, Numbers
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1841-1843”, p.157, Harvard University Press

Let us answer a book of ink with a book of flesh and blood.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Book, Reading, Blood
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.257, Harvard University Press

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Education, Reading, Writing
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred R. Ferguson (1965). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V: 1835-1838”, p.233, Harvard University Press

Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Reading, Writing, Lines
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.413

Tis the good reader that makes the good book.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Education, Book, Reading
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.150, Harvard University Press

Books take their place according to their specific gravity as surely as potatoes in a tub.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Book, Reading, Tubs
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred R. Ferguson (1965). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V: 1835-1838”, p.78, Harvard University Press

In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern boxes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Reading, Library, Paper
"Society and Solitude and Other Essays".

A man is known by the books he reads.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Book, Reading, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.69, Harvard University Press

It is a greater joy to see the author's author, than himself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Reading, Joy, Greater
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays, second series”, p.137, Harvard University Press

I may say it of our preposterous use of books,--He knew not what to do, and so he read.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Book, Reading, Use
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.54, Penguin

I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was significant to him, but which he could never find again. Sure he is that he read it there, but no one else ever read it, nor can he find it again, though he buy the book and ransack every page.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Book, Reading, Pages
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco (1982). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.64, Harvard University Press

When fear enters the heart of a man at hearing the names of candidates and the reading of laws that are proposed, then is the State safe, but when these things are heard without regard, as above or below us, then is the Commonwealth sick or dead.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Reading, Heart, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1976). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume XII: 1835-1862”, p.127, Harvard University Press

Read proudly--put the duty of being read invariably on the author. If he is not read, whose fault is it? I am quite ready to be charmed, but I shall not make-believe I am charmed.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Believe, Reading, Faults
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1979). “The complete works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”

I think I have done well, if I have acquired a new word from a good author; and my business with him is to find my own, though itwere only to melt him down into an epithet or an image for daily use.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Book, Reading, Thinking
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.172, Graphic Arts Books

It is with a good book as it is with good company.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Book, Reading, Good Company
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.89, Courier Corporation

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