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" They are for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system. "
Select Essays and Addresses: Including The American Scholar - Page 191
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1912 - 275 pages
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The Harvard Classics, Volume 5

1909 - 540 pages
...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...thing in the world, of value, is the active soul. This every man is entitled to ; this every man contains within him, although, in almost all men, obstructed,...
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Essays and English Traits

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1909 - 636 pages
...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...thing in the world, of value, is the active soul. This every man is entitled to ; this every man contains within him, although, in almost all men, obstructed,...
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How to Study and Teaching how to Study

Frank Morton McMurry - 1909 - 348 pages
...of things well used ; abused, among the worst. What is the right use ? They are for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than to be...thing in the world, of value, is the active soul. This every man is entitled to; this every man contains within him, although in almost all men obstructed,...
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How to Study and Teaching how to Study

Frank Morton McMurry - 1909 - 340 pages
...of things well used ; abused, among the worst. What is the right use ? They are for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than to be...orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system. The one1 thing in the world, of value, is the active soul. This every man is entitled to; this every man...
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Writing the Short-story: A Practical Handbook on the Rise, Structure ...

Joseph Berg Esenwein - 1909 - 480 pages
...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...orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system." Emerson here 13 uses the enthusiast's license to exaggerate, but it is a wholesome hyperbole and will...
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The Teachers of Emerson

John Smith Harrison - 1910 - 348 pages
...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...orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system." 1 And thus in the reading of his Platonic books he attends only to those portions that appeal to him....
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The Speaker, Volume 3

1911 - 448 pages
...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...one thing in the world of value is the active soul. This every man is entitled to; this every man contains within him, altho, in almost all men, obstructed,...
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The Lawrence Reader and Speaker: A Compilation of Masterpieces in Poetry and ...

Edwin Gordon Lawrence - 1911 - 376 pages
...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...one thing in the world of value is the active soul. This every man is entitled to ; this every man contains within him, although, in almost all men, obstructed,...
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Great Speeches and how to Make Them

Grenville Kleiser - 1911 - 412 pages
...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...one thing in the world of value is the active soul. This every man is entitled to; this every man contains within him, altho, in almost all men, obstructed,...
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The American Scholar,: Self-reliance, Compensation,

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 148 pages
...What is the right use? What is the one end, which all means go to effect? They_are_|or ^nothing but to inspire.^ I had better never see a book, than to be warped by its attraction clear! out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a systern. The one thing in the world,...
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