Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid us in thinking.
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If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus. 96180 A. D.Edward Gibbon
The theologians may indulge the pleasing task of describing religion as she descended from Heaven, arrayed in her native purity. A more melancholy duty is imposed on the historian read journalist He must discover the inevitable mixture of error and corruption which she contracted in a long residence upon earth, among a weak and degenerate race of beings.
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Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.
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The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.
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Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
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