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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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A Pictorial and Descriptive Guide to Falmouth, the Lizard, Truro, St ...

1922 - 328 pages
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Peabody Journal of Education, Volume 17

1939 - 426 pages
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The Mind at Work in Studying, Thinking, and Reading: A Source Book and ...

Rollo La Verne Lyman - 1924 - 360 pages
...as welcome to me as would a comrade or a brother. One may study with the thought of future travel. "He that would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry out the wealth of the Indies." That is, we shall see only what we are prepared to see. Study with the thought of making yourself an...
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The Coasts of Illusion: A Study of Travel Tales

Clark Barnaby Firestone - 1924 - 474 pages
...delusions as to the Americas of the sixteenth century constitute the strangest chapter of travel tale. But "he that would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him"; the illusory expeditions of Spain had results that were denied...
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Rider's Washington: A Guide Book for Travelers, with 3 Maps and 22 Plans

Fremont Rider, Frederic Taber Cooper - 1924 - 620 pages
...to meet thine own." In other men—sleeping, but never dead— 3. Southwest Pavilion, South facade: "He that would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him. So is it in travelling—a man must carry knowledge with him! if...
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Education, Volume 45

1925 - 666 pages
...has to consult Chaucer or Aristotle on aerial navigation or Noah on submarine warfare. Says Emerson : "When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the...whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold illusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of the author is as broad as the world...
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The Freshman Girl: A Guide to College Life

Kate W. Jameson, Frank Cummins Lockwood - 1925 - 186 pages
...prove as welcome to me as would a sister or a comrade. One may study with the thought of future travel. "He that would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry out the wealth of the Indies." That is, we shall see only what we are prepared to see. Study with the thought of making yourself an...
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Selections from the Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 398 pages
...read well. As the proverb says, "He tha 5 would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry ou the wealth of the Indies." There is then creative...reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is bracecLbj labor and invention, the page of whatever book we reac becomes luminous with manifold allusion....
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The Windsor Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly for Men and Women, Volume 63

1926 - 768 pages
...Mackenzie's Laboratories, Ltd., Reading, England. POST FREE 2^3 CXXJC^^ P^ PREPARE FOR YOUR HOLIDAY " He that would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him ; so it is in travelling— man must carry knowledge with him if...
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Etiquette, Jr

Mary E. Clark, Margery Closey Quigley - 1926 - 324 pages
...home. Do not spend everything you earn on yourself or your friends. TRAVELING CHAPTER XV TRAVELING "He that would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him. So is it in traveling — a man must carry knowledge with him if...
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