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" Books are the best of things, well used ; abused, among the worst. What is the right use ? What 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... "
NATURE, ADDRESSES, AND LECTURES - Page 87
by RALPH WALDO EMERSON - 1883
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The Microcosm: Or, Little World of Home, Volumes 1-3

1835 - 616 pages
...readings, the emcndators, the bibliomaniacs of all degrees. This is bad ; this is worse than it seems. Books are the best of things, well used ; abused, among the worst. What is the right use 1 What is the one end which all means go to effect? They are for nothing but to inspire. I had better...
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The Boston Quarterly Review, Volume 1

1838 - 536 pages
...Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries when they wrote these books." " Books are good only to inspire. I had better never see a book than to...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...
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Essays, Lectures and Orations

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...readings, the emendators, the bibliomaniacs of all degrees. This is bad; this is worse than it seems. Books are the best of things, well used ; abused,...but to inspire. I had better never see a book than lo be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system....
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Miscellanies: Embracing Nature, Addresses, and Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 404 pages
...world and the soul. Hence, the restorers of readings, the emendators, the bibliomaniacs of all degrees. Books are the best of things, well used ; abused,...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...
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The Collected Works of ... P. ...

Theodore Parker - 1864 - 626 pages
...in libraries, when they wrote these books. Hence, instead of man thinking, we have the bookworm. " Books are the best of things, well used ; abused,...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 soul....
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Miscellanies, Embracing Nature, Addresses, and Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 400 pages
...and the soul. Hence, the restorers of readings, the -emendatojaT.the bibliomaniacs of all degrees. Books are the best of things, well used ; abused, among the worst. vWhat is the right use ? What is the one end, which all means go to effect ? They are for nothing but...
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The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 1

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 pages
...soul. Hence, the restorers of readings, the cmendators, the bibliomaniacs of all degrees. Books arc the best of things, well used ; abused, among the...is the one end, which ' • all means go to effect 1 They are for nothing but to inspire, v/ I had better never see a book, than to be warped by its attraction...
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The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: In Two Volumes, Volume 1

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 pages
...world and the soul. Hence, the restorers of readings, the emendators, the bibliomaniacs of all degrees. Books are the best of things, well used ; abused,...What is the one end, which all means go to effect 1 They are for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book, than to be warped by its attraction...
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Nature: Addresses, and Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 326 pages
...readings, the emendators, the bibliomaniacs of all decrees. Books are the best of things, well nsen ; abused, among the worst. What is the right use ? What is the one end, which all means go to ('fleet? They are for nothing but. to inspire. I had better never see a book, than to be warped by...
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The Cyclopædia of Education: A Dictionary of Information for the Use of ...

Henry Kiddle, Alexander Jacob Schem - 1876 - 900 pages
...realize the force and beauty of that fine sentiment of Emerson : " I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.'' Montaigne strongly condemned the prevalent mode of teac faing by authority. " I^et the tutor," says...
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