Fools admire everything in an author of reputation. Candide
Meditation and water are wedded for ever. Moby Dick
Take a book, the poorest one written, but read it with the passion that it is the only book you will read-ultimately you will read everything out of it, that is, as much as there was in yourself, and you could never get more out of reading, even if you read the best of books. Stages on Life's Way
"The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large." The Analects of Confucius
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