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Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good: Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.
- William Wordsworth
I am senting many books for endorsement purposes, which enables me to stay relevant in my own field, and I have people that help me decide which ones I should read and endorse.
- Stephen Covey
Our hope is that the elementary reading of comics will lead to the joy of reading good books.
- Nelson Mandela
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
- Maya Angelou
I read my Eyes out, and cant read half enough neither. The more one reads the more one sees We have to read.
- John Adams
More Bibles are bought and fewer read than any other book.
- Vance Havner
Don't you ever mind, she asked suddenly, not being rich enough to buy all the books you want?
- Edith Wharton
Newland never seems to look ahead,' Mrs. Welland once ventured to complain to her daughter; and May answered serenely: 'No; but you see it doesn't matter, because when there's nothing particular to do he reads a book.
- Edith Wharton
Life is the saddest thing there is, next to death; yet there are always new countries to see, new books to read (and, I hope, to write), a thousand little daily wonders to marvel at and rejoice in.
- Edith Wharton
as usual, kept the fire alive and the lamp trimmed; and the room, with its rows and rows of books
- Edith Wharton
I do not concern myself much with reading long commentary volumes designed to enlarge at length upon that which is found in the scriptures. Rather, I prefer to dwell with the source, tasting of the unadulterated waters of the fountain of truth - the word of God as he gave it and as it has been recorded in the books we accept as scripture.
- Gordon Hinckley
I believe God is a poet; every religion in our history was made of poems and songs, and not a few of them had books attached.
- Luis Alberto Urrea