Master those books you have. Read them thoroughly. Bathe in them until they saturate you. Read and reread them…digest them. Let them go into your very self. Peruse a good book several times and make notes and analyses of it. A student will find that his mental constitution is more affected by one book thoroughly mastered than by twenty books he has merely skimmed. Little learning and much pride comes from hasty reading. Some men are disabled from thinking by their putting meditation away for the sake of much reading. In reading let your motto be ‘much not many.’

Charles Spurgeon

I’ve been re-thinking the way I have been buying and reading most books for awhile and came across this in Spurgeon’s ‘Lectures To My Students’.

It made me slow down in my reading, buy less books and try to actually remember what the heck I read and hopefully learned. It’s kind of nice when you think you have a better insight into something and then have someone far smarter than you confirm it. I have more thoughts on this because I think this should affect the way we choose what we read. But I’ll post it later. I have laundry to do and I need to shave before work.

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