 READING is to the mind what exercise is to the body. As by the one health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated ; by the other virtue, which is the health of the mind, is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.  The Tatler - Page 171by Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - 1804 - 400 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt - Quotations, English - 1882 - 914 pages
...And minds the covenant between all and One. ». VAUGHAS — 77ic Л'ат/xjw. BEADING. Reading Í4to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health i» preberved, strengthened, and invigorated; by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mied)... | |
 | Harriet B. Swineford - American literature - 1883 - 302 pages
...right. POPE. There is a divinity that shapes our ends, Bough-hew them as we may. SHAKESPEARE. READING. Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body....the mind) is kept alive, cherished and confirmed. ADDISON. Half the gossip of society would perish if the books that are truly worth reading were but... | |
 | Book-lover - 1883 - 262 pages
...understanding. — " Love for Love." SIR RICHARD STEELE. 1671—1729. Beading is to the mind, what exereise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved,...strengthened, and invigorated; by the other, virtue (whieh is the health of the mind) is kept alive, eherished and eonfirmed. Bat as exereise beeomes tedious... | |
 | Charles Henry Winston, Thomas Randolph Price, D. Lee Powell, John Meredith Strother, H. H. Harris, John P. McGuire, Rodes Massie, William Fayette Fox, Harry Fishburne Estill (F.), Richard Ratcliffe Farr, John Lee Buchanan, George R. Pace - Education - 1888 - 1260 pages
...mind what exercise is to the body. As by one the health is preserved, strengthened and invigorated, so by the other virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished and confined." Since this is literally true, every one should be as careful to avoid light and unwholesome... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1889 - 934 pages
...glorious throne, And minds the covenant between all and One. )•. VAUGHAS — The Rainbow. BEADING. Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body....the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed. s. ADDISON -The Taller. No. 147. Head not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted,... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - Citations anglaises - 1889 - 724 pages
...Authors, Books, Education, Gossip, Literature. Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. As oy the one health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated,...the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed. 4601 Addison : The Taller. No. 147. • Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take... | |
 | James Henry Potts - Philosophy and religion - 1889 - 806 pages
...guilty of the blindest folly as well as the basest ingratitude. READING AS A MEANS OF IMPROVEMENT. " Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body."...health is preserved, strengthened and invigorated, so by the other, thought is replenished, solidified and confirmed. To get the highest intellectual... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - Citations anglaises - 1889 - 720 pages
...4600 Hazlitt: Characteristics. No. 40*. READING — nee Authors, Books, Education, Gossip, Literature. Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. As uy the one health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated, by the other, virtue (which is the health... | |
 | James Louis O'Neil - Books and reading - 1893 - 154 pages
...and rich men who know not this happiness." 8 Addison expressed a similar thought when he wrote : " Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body....the mind, is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed." Furthermore, we should read because of that delightful companionship with the great and spiritual who,... | |
 | Charles John Smith - English language - 1893 - 796 pages
...often, if not offener, employed in a secondary or metaphorical, as in the primary and literal sense. " As exercise becomes tedious and painful when we make use of it only as the meaus of health ; so reading is apt to grow uneasy and burdensome when we apply ourselves to it only... | |
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