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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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Nature ; Addresses and Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 524 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...creative writing./ When the mind is braced by labor and inven-[| tion, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence...
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Nature, Addresses and Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 532 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 trie wealth of the Indies, must carry out the wealth of the Indies." There is then creative reading...
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Elements of English Composition: Designed for Use in Secondary Schools

Tuley Francis Huntington - 1904 - 412 pages
...occasion that arises, is far better."1 Emerson had it in mind, when he said that " one must be an inventor to read well. As the proverb says, ' He that would...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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Modern English Prose

George Rice Carpenter, William Tenney Brewster - 1904 - 504 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." There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When...
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The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: society & solitude. Letters & social aims ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 564 pages
...printed page. I only would say, that it needs a strong head to bear that ^Jiet. 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...
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Masterpieces of Eloquence: Famous Orations of Great World Leaders ..., Volume 14

Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1905 - 460 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...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....
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Select Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1907 - 270 pages
...printed page. I only would say that it needs a strong head to bear that diet. One must be an inventor1 to read well. As the proverb says, " He that would...Indies, must carry out the wealth of the Indies." There 10 is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labour and invention,...
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Burg Neideck

Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl - 1907 - 174 pages
...school-master, the author may have had in mind the quotation from Emerson's essay, The American Scholar: "He that would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry out the wealth of the Indies." Page 40. — t. î)ie§ wenig fd)tneid)ell)afte 3°»berlt, Ms by no means flattering hesitation. 2....
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The Spirit of Montaigne: Some Thoughts and Expressions Similar ..., Volume 114

Grace Norton - 1908 - 258 pages
...vertu plus difficilement et hautement que ne font ceux qui sont en magistrat. One must be an inventor to read well. As the proverb says, "He that would...well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labour and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every...
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A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the ...

Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 788 pages
...without that it its so much loose matter floating in our brain. — Locke. One must be an inventor to read well. — As the proverb says, " He that would...must carry out the wealth of the Indies.— There is creative reading as well as creative writing. — When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the...
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