 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 126 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...Indies, must carry out the wealth of the Indies." 1 There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and... | |
 | Orison Swett Marden - 1894 - 480 pages
...ourselves, that we are underlings. SHAKESPEARE. Every one is the son of his own works. — CERVANTES. He that would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry out the wealth of the Indies. — OLD ADAGE. A rase is begun ; why, as the wheel goes round, does it turn out • pitcher ? — HORACE.... | |
 | John Franklin Genung - 1895 - 520 pages
...name, borrowed from Emerson, of " creative reading." Mr. Emerson says : ' — " One must be an inventor to read well. As the proverb says, ' He that would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must cany out the wealth of the Indies.' There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When... | |
 | Orison Swett Marden - 1896 - 488 pages
...ourselves, that we are underlings. SHAKESPEARE. Every one is the son of his own works. — CERVANTES. He that would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry out the wealth of the Indies. — OLD ADAGE. A vase is begun ; why, as the wheel goes round, does it turn out a pitcher ? — HORACK.... | |
 | Orison Swett Marden - 1896 - 490 pages
...ourselves, that we are underlings. SHAKESPEARE. Every one is the son of his own works. — CERVANTES. He that would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry out the wealth of the Indies. — OLD ADAQE. A vase is begun ; why, as the wheel goes round, does it turn out a pitcher ? — HORACE.... | |
 | 1896 - 374 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 bring home the wealth of the Indies, must cany out the wealth of the Indies." l There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When... | |
 | 1899 - 726 pages
...must stand on our own feet, we must adapt, we must invent. It must ever be borne in mind that " He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry out the wealth of the Indies," and more that whatever is good and strong must be a part of self. Plutarch said a long time ago: "... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1902 - 468 pages
...would say, that it needs a strong, head to bear that. diet. One must be an inventor to read ;*w - **»^ well. As the proverb says, " He that would bring home...whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold iallusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world.... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1902 - 408 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 Ind1es." What you bring away from the Bible depends to some extent on what you carry to it. — Benjamin... | |
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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 die sense of our author is... 
