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Essay with subtitles about pleasures of reading

Answer 1

A book is always a source of pleasures.  It is constant companion to man in weal or woe.  It is a source of knowledge as  well as entertainment.  Books contain the best of the thoughts of their authors. Robert Southey, a well- known lover of books.Everybody wants recreation after hard work.  It is a biological necessity.  Books are a ‘great source of entertainment and recreation.’  They share the readers’ joys and sorrows.  A lover of books comes back home a very relaxed man after a visit to the library.  For him, the library is a temple of learning and a source of pleasures.  With its excellent academic, peaceful and educative atmosphere, a library is a place of peace, quiet and serenity.  J.B. Macaulay once said,” I would rather be a poor man in a place garret with plenty of books than a king who did not love reading.” Henry David Thoreau rightly remarked, “Books are the treasured wealth of the world, the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

                Reading books can introduce a new charm in life.  A book is the precious life blood of a master mind.  Books bring us in contact with the greatest scholars of the past and the present. As we get into the spirit of a book our entire attitude is changed.  Books share our joys and sorrows.  When we are in a happy mood, we share our pleasures in the company of books.  In our sadder moments, books act as our nurses or guardians and provide us with words of encouragement and consolation.  Books are, therefore, the best of friends.  Our human friends may desert us, but books do not desert us in any circumstances.  They stand by us through thick and thin.

                Books entertain and delight their readers.  Reading is a thrilling and an enchanting experience.  Books are the pearls of wisdom.  The best of human knowledge and thought is condensed in them.  They act as beacon lights to illumine our path on the dark and vast ocean of life.  Just as they relieve the boredom of journey in trains or buses, they also act as a stay and a support in the long journey of our life in his world.

                Bacon felt: “Reading maketh a full man.”  In fact, reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.  Realising the immense value of reading.  Gibbon once asserted,” My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange with the treasures of India.”

                As far as possible, our endeavour should  be read the well-known and famed literature only.  But falling into the habit of reading cheap and inferior books, reading can become a curse as well.  It will poison the stream of our thought and make our mind a haunt of devilish ideas.  Choice of books is of first and foremost importance.  It is again, more useful to read wisely than to read carelessly and hurriedly.

                The great masterpieces, famous novels, biographies, books of philosophy and history have their own importance in human life.  A proper and health pleasure comes from understanding properly what we read.  No doubt, it requires a hard training and disciplining of our mind.  But once this art is learnt, there is no end to the satisfaction and deep contentment which we can derive from this art.  Milton has rightly said: “A good books is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose for a life beyond.”

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