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That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed
with profit.
Topic: Books
Source: Table Talk (bk. I, Learning-Books)
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A man of one book.
[Lat., Homo unius libri.]
Topic: Books
Source: Table Talk (bk. I, Learning-Books)
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That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed in profit.
Topic: Books
Source: None
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One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
Topic: Books and Reading
Source: None
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The less routine the more life.
Topic: Inspirational
Source: None
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The richest minds need not large libraries.
Topic: Libraries
Source: Table Talk (bk. I, Learning-Books)
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The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.
Topic: Literature
Source: None
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The surest sign of age is loneliness.
Topic: Men and Women
Source: None
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Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.
Topic: Miscellaneous
Source: None
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One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
Topic: Quotes
Source: None
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Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.
Topic: Strength
Source: None
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Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength not my weakness.
Topic: Sympathy
Source: Table-Talk--Sympathy
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The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from
exclusiveness and egotism.
Topic: Traveling
Source: Table-Talk--Traveling
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Traveling is no fool's errand to him who carries his eyes and
itinerary along with him.
Topic: Traveling
Source: Table-Talk--Traveling
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Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for
the most part, refuse to be written.
Topic: Truth
Source: Concord Days--June--Goethe
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One's outlook is a part of his virtue.
Topic: Virtue
Source: Concord Days--April Outlook
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Divination seems heightened and raised to its highest power in
woman.
Topic: Women
Source: Concord Days--August--Woman
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Oh, the gladness of their gladness when they're glad,
And the sadness of their sadness when they're sad;
But the gladness of their gladness, and the sadness of their
sadness,
Are as nothing to their badness when they're bad.
Topic: Women
Source: Concord Days--August--Woman
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Oh, the shrewdness of their shrewdness when they are shrewd,
And the rudeness of their rudeness when they're rude;
But the shrewdness of their shrewdness and the rudeness of their
rudeness,
Are as nothing to their goodness when they're good.
Topic: Women
Source: Concord Days--August--Woman
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