William Ellery Channing: Let every man, if possible, gather some good books under his roof.
Let every man, if possible, gather some good books under his roof.
In today’s wordsEveryone should, if at all possible, bring some good books into their home.
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- It doesn’t matter where you came from, it matters where you learn from.
- Our Family of Origin gives us our first life lessons, by default or by design, that we spend the rest of our lives either building upon or trying to overcome.
- It is impossible to learn from what you are critical about.
- Your life story is your life story. Your power comes from this life story. Not about living perfect, but that you are learning from your life story.
- Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking makes what we read ours. So far as we apprehend and see the connection of ideas, so far it is ours; without that it is so much loose matter floating in our brain.
- We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.