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... be ever reading, exhorting, and teaching in God's word, that the people of God run not unto other doctrines ...

— Myles Coverdale Coverdale Bible (1535)

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The dew of thy birth is of the womb of the morning.

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If thou be a preacher, and hast the oversight of the flock of Christ, awake and feed Christ's sheep with a good heart ...

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In them hath He set a tabernacle for the sun, which cometh forth as a bridegroom out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a giant to run his course.

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For as false doctrine is the original cause of all evil plagues and destruction, so is the true executing of the law of God and the preaching of the same, the mother of all godly prosperity.

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... seeing that light is come into the world, love no more the works of darkness, receive not the grace of God in vain.

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

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It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.

Albert Pike Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith Afterthoughts (1931)

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