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" It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature, that a man, having once shown himself capable of original writing, is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion. Thought is the property of him who can entertain... "
Complete Works - Page 189
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899
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Representative Men: Seven Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 270 pages
...is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion. Thought is the property of him who can entertain it, and of him who can adequately...learned what to do with them, they become our own. Thus originality is relative. Every thinker is retrospective. The learned member of the legislature at Westminster...
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Handbuch der nordamericanischen National-Literatur: Sammlung von ...

Ludwig Herrig - 1854 - 580 pages
...is entitled thcncoforth to steal from the writings of others at diseretion. Thought is the property of him who can entertain it; and of him who can adequately pluce it. A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts; but, äs soon äs we have learned...
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Representative Men: Seven Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 336 pages
...and of him who can adequately place it. A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts j but, as soon as we have learned what to do with them,...thinker is retrospective. The learned member of the legislature, at Westminster, or at Washington, speaks and votes for thousands. Show us the constituency,...
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Representative Men: Seven Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1857 - 300 pages
...is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion. Thought is the property of him who can entertain it; and of him who can adequately...certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts; hut, as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they become our own. Thus, all originality is...
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Penny readings in prose and verse, selected and ed. by J.E. Carpenter, Volume 5

Penny readings - 1866 - 304 pages
...the sparkle of the true stone, and puts it in high place wherever he finds it Thought is the property of him who can entertain it, and of him who can adequately...thinker is retrospective. The learned member of the legislature at Westminster, or at Washington, speaks and votes for thousands. Show us the constituency,...
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Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 500 pages
...entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at . discretion. Thought is the property of him who can entertain it; and of him who can adequately...thinker is retrospective. The learned member of the Legislature, at Westminster, or at Washington, speaks and votes for thousands. Show us the constituency,...
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The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 504 pages
...is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion. Thought is the property of him who can entertain it ; and of him who can adequately...thinker is retrospective. The learned member of the Legislature, at Westminster, or at Washington, speaks and votes for thousands. Show us the constituency,...
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Saint Pauls, Volume 7

1871 - 606 pages
...is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion. Thought is the property of him who can entertain it, and of him who can adequately...learned what to do with them, they become our own."* But let us return to the jaded revellers in the literary banquethall. There is a certain fresh sweep...
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The bards and authors of Cleveland and south Durham, and the vicinage

George Markham Tweddell - 1872 - 438 pages
...writers by an unconscious plagiarism of their works. " Thought," says WALDO EMERSON, "is the property of him who can entertain it; and of him who can adequately...learned what to do with them, they become our own." Mr. Cleaver opens his principal poem with the following beautiful verses : — " Lo ! to his couch,...
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The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: In Two Volumes

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 500 pages
...is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion. Thought is the property of him who can entertain it ; and of him who can adequately...originality is relative. Every thinker is retrospective. Tho learned member of the Legislature, at Westminster, or at Washington, speaks and votes for thousands....
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