Woe be to him that reads but one book.

—George Herbert

About George Herbert

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George Herbert (3 April 1593 – 1 March 1633) was an English poet, orator, and priest of the Church of England. His poetry is associated with the writings of the metaphysical poets, and he is recognised as "one of the foremost British devotional lyricists." He was born in Wales into...

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You must lose a fly to catch a trout.

—George Herbert

Storms make oaks take deeper root.

—George Herbert

Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot.

—George Herbert

Life is half spent before we know what it is.

—George Herbert

The best mirror is an old friend.

—George Herbert

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A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

—G. K. Chesterton

I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.

Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was.

—Ernest Hemingway

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

—Edith Sitwell

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