Quote by Edwin Markham
He fed his spirit with the bread of books. - Edwin Markham

He fed his spirit with the bread of books. – Edwin Markham

Other quotes by Edwin Markham

Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, the emptiness of ages in his face, and on his back the burden of the world. – Edwin Markham

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There is a destiny which makes us brothers none goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own. – Edwin Markham

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I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves. – E.M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951

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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint…. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting. – Henry David Thoreau

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The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation. – Aharon Appelfeld

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Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you. – Harold Bloom

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