| William Mathews - 1903 - 442 էջ
...says the strenuous advocate of self-trust we have just quoted ? " They are for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book, than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and be made a satellite instead of a system." In reading the best books, — the masterpieces on which... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 520 էջ
...all means go to effect ? They are for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system. The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul. This every man is entitled to ; this every... | |
| George Rice Carpenter, William Tenney Brewster - 1904 - 504 էջ
...all means go to effect ? They are for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system. The one thing in the world of value is the active soul, — the soul, free, sovereign, active. This... | |
| Richard Wilson - 1905 - 224 էջ
...all means go to effect t They are for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book, than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit and made a satellite instead of a system. The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul." — KW EMERSON. ' ' The noble and profound... | |
| Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1905 - 508 էջ
...all means go to effect ? They are for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit and made a satellite instead of a system. The one thing in the world of value is the active soul. This every man is entitled to; this every man... | |
| William Jennings Bryan, Francis Whiting Halsey - 1906 - 286 էջ
...to effect? They are for nothing but to inspire. VIII— 17 257 I had better never see a book than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit and made a satellite instead of a system. The one thing in the world of value is the active soul. This every man is entitled to; this every man... | |
| Leon Henry Vincent - 1906 - 548 էջ
...the impress of our minds. Second, books, which, noble as they are in theory, have their danger : ' I ' had better never see a book than be warped by 'its attraction clean out of my own orbit.' Third, life, everything which is the opposite of mere thinking. ' If it were only for a vocabulary... | |
| Theodore Parker - 1907 - 578 էջ
...all means go to effect? They are for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system. The one thing in the world of value is the active soul. This every man is entitled to; this every man... | |
| Theodore Parker - 1907 - 552 էջ
...all means go to effect? They are for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system. The one thing in the world of value is the active soul. This every man is entitled to; this every man... | |
| David Graham - 1908 - 410 էջ
...all means go to effect ? They are for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system. The one thing in the world of value, is the active soul. This every man is entitled to; this every... | |
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