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... The professor at the breakfast table. Author's ed - Page 12by Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1883Full view - About this book
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...bear that diet. One must be an inventor to read well. As the proverb says, ' He that would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry out the wealth of the Indies.' There is then creative reading, as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
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| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 408 pages
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| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 404 pages
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...his doctrine ! — 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... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 472 pages
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| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 298 pages
...bear that diet. One must be an inventor to read well. As the proverb says, "He that would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry out the wealth of the Indies," There is, then, creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labour and... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1870 - 266 pages
...church has been a good pitchpipe, and may be so still. But who shall tune the pitch-pipe ? Quis fus (On the whole, as this quotation was not entirely...Indies." What you bring away from the Bible depends to someextent on what you carry to it. — Benjamin Franklin ! Be so good as to step up to my chamber... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 pages
...bear that diet. One must be an inventor to read well. As the proverb says, " He that would bring home the (/ wealth of the Indies, must carry out the wealth of the Indies." ( There is then creative readingja§_well_jj,s_ja:cativc grj&ag. < When the mind is braced by .labor... | |
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