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" There is then creative reading, as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is... "
Orations from Homer to William McKinley - Page 5935
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The Microcosm: Or, Little World of Home, Volumes 1-3

1835 - 616 pages
...page. I only would say, that it needs a strong head to bear that diet. One must be an inventor to read well. As the proverb says, ' He that would bring home...whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world....
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Essays, orations and lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...page. I only would say, that it needs a strong head to bear that diet. One must be an inventor to read well. As the proverb says, " He that would bring home...well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labour and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every...
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Essays, Lectures and Orations

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...te bear that diet. One must be an inventor to read well. As the proverb says, " He that would hriiig home the wealth of the Indies, must carry out the...well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labour and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every...
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Nature; Addresses, and Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 408 pages
...page. I only would say, that it needs a strong head to bear that diet. One must be an inventor to read well. As the proverb says, "He that would bring home...whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world....
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Miscellanies: Embracing Nature, Addresses, and Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 402 pages
...page. I only would say, that it needs a strong head to bear that diet. One must be an inventor to read well. As the proverb says, " He that would bring home...whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world....
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Miscellanies: Embracing Nature, Addresses, and Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1860 - 410 pages
...page. I only would say, that it needs a strong head to bear that diet. One must be an inventor to read well. As the proverb says, " He that would bring home the wealth of the ladies, must carry out the wealth of the Indies." There is then creative reading as well as creative...
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The Dial, Volume 1

Moncure Daniel Conway - 1860 - 794 pages
...the many having no affinity for it. Emerson somewhere uses the proverb, " He that would bring back the wealth of the Indies, must carry out the wealth of the Indies ; " and will not this admit of application to Bible students ? Does not the selfish man bring away...
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The Professor at the Breakfast-table: With the Story of Iris

Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1860 - 436 pages
...I said; — yet there is room for a gloss or commentary on what you say. " He who would bring back the wealth of the Indies must carry out the wealth of the Indies." What you bring away from the Bible depends to some extent on what you carry to it. — Benjamin Franklin...
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Miscellanies, Embracing Nature, Addresses, and Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 400 pages
...page. I only would say, that it needs a strong head to bear that diet. One must be an inventor to read well. As the proverb says, " He that would bring home...braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever hook we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the...
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Orations, Lectures and Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 298 pages
...page. I only would say, that it needs a strong head to bear that diet. One must be an inventor to read well. As the proverb says, "He that would bring home...well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labour and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every...
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