Common Reading Experience

Famous quotes containing the words common, reading and/or experience:

“Our common country is in great peril, demanding the loftiest views, and boldest action to bring it speedy relief.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

“Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.”
—William Penn (1644–1718)

“The experience of every past moment but belies the faith of each present.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)