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History, Self-reliance, Nature, Spiritual Laws, The American Scholar - Page 160
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 180 pages
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Select Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 402 pages
...printed 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...the Indies must carry out the wealth of the Indies." There_js then_£reative reajjjng as well as _cxeative writirjg. Whenthe mincPis bracecTby laEour 'ar»3...
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The Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes: The professor at the breakfast-table ...

Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1891 - 354 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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... The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes ...: Ralph Waldo Emerson, John ...

Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 598 pages
...and Bacon were only young men in libraries when they wrote these books. . . . One must be an inventor to read well. As the proverb says, 'He that would...the Indies must carry out the wealth of the Indies.' . . . When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous...
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Works, Volume 11

Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 616 pages
...and Bacon were only young men in libraries when they wrote these books. . . . One must be an inventor to read well. As the proverb says, 'He that would...the Indies must carry out the wealth of the Indies.' . . . When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Lothrop Motley: Two Memoirs

Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 590 pages
...and Bacon were only young men in libraries when they wrote these books. . . . One must be an inventor to read well. As the proverb says, 'He that would...the Indies must carry out the wealth of the Indies.' . . . When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Lothrop Motley

Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 606 pages
...and Bacon were only young men in libraries when they wrote these books. . . . One must be an inventor to read well. As the proverb says, 'He that would...the Indies must carry out the wealth of the Indies." . . . When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous...
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West Roxbury Sermons: 1837-1848

Theodore Parker - 1892 - 278 pages
...enjoys much ; the careless and the foolish see little and enjoy little. There is an old proverb, " He that would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry out the wealth of the Indies." All things are yours on condition that you know how to use them. The gates will only open to him who...
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The professor at the breakfast-tabel

Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 380 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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The professor at the breakfast-tabel

Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 356 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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Works, Volume 2

Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 388 pages
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