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" 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. "
Emerson: And Other Essays - Page 9
by John Jay Chapman - 1898 - 247 pages
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The Microcosm: Or, Little World of Home, Volumes 1-3

1835 - 616 pages
...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 every man is entitled to; this every man contains within...
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Essays, orations and lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...system. 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...soul active, sees absolute truth; and utters truth, or creates. In this action, it is genius; not the privilege of here and there a favourite, but the...
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Essays, Lectures and Orations

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...system. 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...soul active, sees absolute truth; and utters truth, or creates. In this action, it is genius; not the privilege of here and there a favourite, but the...
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Nature; Addresses, and Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 414 pages
...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 active sees absolute truth; and utters truth, or creates. In this action, it is genius ; not the privilege of here and there a favorite, but the...
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Massachusetts Quarterly Review, Volume 3

1849 - 448 pages
...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 active sees absolute truth ; and utters truth, or creates. . . The book, the college, the school of art, the institution of any kind, stop with some...
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Miscellanies: Embracing Nature, Addresses, and Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 402 pages
...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 active sees absolute truth ; and utters truth, or creates. In this action, it is genius ; not the privilege of here and there a favorite, but the...
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Wisconsin Journal of Education, Volume 28

1898 - 416 pages
...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 active sees absolute truth; and utters truth, or creates. In this action it is genius; not the privilege of here and there a favorite, but the sound...
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Miscellanies: Embracing Nature, Addresses, and Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 404 pages
...warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system. The one 8 thing in the world, of value, is the active soul....soul active sees absolute truth ; and utters truth, or creates. In this action, it is genius ; not the privilege of here and there a favorite, but the...
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The Collected Works of ... P. ...

Theodore Parker - 1864 - 626 pages
...to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, aud made a satellite instead of a system. The one thing in the world, of value, is the active...within him, although, in almost all men, obstructed, aud as yet unborn. The soul active sees absolute truth ; and utters truth, or creates. . . The book,...
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The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays ..., Volume 2

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 472 pages
...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 active sees absolute truth ; and utters truth, or creates. In this action, it is genius ; not the privilege of here and there a favourite, but the...
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