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What is the use of spending one's time in continuous reading, turning the pages of the lives and sayings of holy men, unless we can extract nourishment from them by chewing and digesting this food so that its strength can pass into our inmost heart?

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He who is mounted on pride does not know how to sit still.

Let him sit alone, the Scripture says; and indeed, unless he sits and rests, he will not be alone.

Reading seeks for the sweetness of a blessed life, meditation perceives it, prayer asks for it, contemplation tastes it.

He who is not alone cannot be silent. And he who is not silent cannot hear you when you speak to him.

There is little sweetness in the study of the literal sense, unless there be a commentary, which is found in the heart, to reveal the inward sense.

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

Logan Pearsall Smith Afterthoughts (1931)

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