Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.
Interpretation
A good reader brings a book to life, uncovering personal insights that resonate uniquely with them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson emphasizes the symbiotic relationship between a reader and a book, suggesting that the worth of a book is enhanced by the quality of the reader. In this context, a discerning and reflective reader can extract profound wisdom and personal connections from the text that may go unnoticed by others, illustrating the importance of perspective in literary interpretation.
In practice
During a book club discussion, one might say, 'As Ralph Waldo Emerson noted, 'Tis the good reader that makes the good book,' to emphasize the value of shared interpretations.
It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.
Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations
The world belongs to the energetic.
Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?
Enthusiasm is the engine of success.
We will ask two central questions throughout this course: 1. What difference does gender make? 2. For which women does it make a difference? Which women?
If your words aren't truthful, the finest optically letter-spaced typography won't help.
I never have time to read now. I did all my reading before I was twenty.
They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing.
What if there was a library which held every book? Not every book on sale, or every important book, or even every book in English, but simply every book - a key part of our planet's cultural legacy.
We men of study, whose heads are in our books, have need to be straightly looked after! We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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