| 1835 - 616 pages
...the one end which 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...and made a satellite instead of a system. The one tiling in the world of value, is, the active soul,— the soul, free, sovereign, active. This every... | |
| 1838 - 536 pages
...men in libraries when they wrote these books." " Books are good only to inspire. I had better never see a book than to be warped by its attraction clean...orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system." " The soul active sees absolute truth ; and utters truth, or creates. In this action, it is genius; not the... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...the one end which 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...The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul,—the soul, free, sovereign, active. This, every man is entitled to ; this every man contains... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...all means go to effect ? They are for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than lo be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit,...The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul,—the soul, free, sovereign, active. This, every man is entitled to ; this, every man contains... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 414 pages
...the one end, which 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...the active soul. This every man is entitled to; this every man contains within him, although, in almost all men, obstructed, and as yet unborn. The soul... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 408 pages
...the one end, which 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...the active soul. This every man is entitled to; this every man contains within him, although, in almost all men, obstructed, and as yet unborn. The soul... | |
| 1849 - 448 pages
...the one end, which 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...active soul. This every man is entitled to ; this every man contains within him, although, in almost all men, obstructed, and as yet unborn. The soul... | |
| 1850 - 548 pages
...the one end, which 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...the active soul. This every man is entitled to; this every man contains within him, although, in almost all men, obstructed, and as yet unborn. The soul... | |
| 1898 - 404 pages
...is the one end which 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...the active soul. This every man is entitled to; this every man contains within him, although in almost all men, obstructed, and as yet unborn. The soul... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 404 pages
...the one end, which 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...and made a satellite instead of a system. The one 8 thing in the world, of value, is the active soul. This every man is entitled to; this every man contains... | |
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