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Perhaps no order thing has such power to lift the poor out of his poverty, the wretched out of his misery, to make the burden-bearer forget his burden, the sick his suffering, as books. They are friends to the lonely, companions to the deserted, joy to the joyless, hope to the hopeless, good cheer to the disheartened, a helper to the helpless. They bring light into darkness, and sunshine into shadow.
We may be poor, socially ostracized, shut out from all personal association with the great and the good, and yet be in the best society in the world, in books.
The trent of may a life for good or ill, for success or failure, has been determined by a single book. The books which we read early in life are those which influence us most.
The greatest advantage of books does not always come from what we remember of them, but from their suggestiveness. A good book often serves as a match to light the dormant-powder within us. There is explosive material enough in most of us if we can only reach it. A good book or good friend often excites thought in great writes, even upon entirely different subjects. We often find in books what we thought and felt, could we have expressed ourselves. Indeed, we get acquainted with ourselves in books. We discover one feature in Emerson, anoter lineament in shakespeare, an expression in Homer, a glimpse of ourselves in Dante, and so on until we spell out our whole individuality. True, we get many pleasing reflections of ourselves from fiends, many mirrored deformities from our enemies, and a characteristic here and there from the world; but in calm and unbiased way we find the most of ourselves, our strength, our weakness, our limitations, our opinions, our taster, our harmonies and discords, our poetic and prosaic qualities, in books.
We form many of our opinions from our favorite books. The author whom we prefer is our most potent teacher; we look at the world through his eyes. If we habitually read books that are elevating in tone, pure in style, sound in reasoning, and keen in insight, our minds develop the same characteristics. The best books are those which stir us up most and make us the most determined to do something and be something ourselves.
Libraries are no longer a luxury, but a necessity. A home without books and periodicals and newspapers in like a house without windows. Children learn to read by being in the midst of books, they unconsciously absorb knowledge by handling them. No family can now afford to be without good reading. "No entertainment is so cheap as reading," says Mary Wortley Montagu, "nor any pleasure so lasting." Good books elevate the character, purify the taste, take the attractiveness out of low pleasures, and lift us upon a higher plane of thinking and living.
Whatever you read, read with enthusiasm, with energy, read with the whole mind, if you would increase your mental stature.
Learn to absorb the mental and the moral life of a book, and assimilate it into your life. He si the best reader who consumes the most knowledge and converts it into character. Mechanical readers remember words, the husks of things, but digest nothing. They cram their brains but starve their minds. If you are getting the most out of a book, you will feel a capacity for doing things which you never felt before.

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