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" see a book than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system. The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul. This every man is entitled to ; this "
The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Page 78
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904
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Documents of the Board of Education of the City of New York

1858 - 870 pages
...realize the force and beauty of that fine sentiment of Emerson: " I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system." 8. A want of system and care in making promotions is another defect quite common, I am afraid, in the...
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Miscellanies: Embracing Nature, Addresses, and Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1860 - 410 pages
...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 warped by its attraction clean...and made a satellite instead of a system. The one 8 thing in the world, of value, is the active soul. This every man is entitled to; this every man contains...
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The Collected Works of ... P. ...

Theodore Parker - 1864 - 626 pages
...one end, which all means go to :t ? They are for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see iok, than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, made a satellite instead of a system. The one thing in the world, alue, is the active soul. This every...
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The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays ..., Volume 2

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 472 pages
...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 warped by its attraction clean...the active soul. This every man is entitled to: this every man contains within him, although, in almost all men, obstructed, and as yet unborn. The soul...
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Orations, Lectures and Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 298 pages
...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 warped by its attraction clean...The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul,—the soul, free, sovereign, active. This, every man is entitled to; this, every man contains...
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The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson. In Two Volumes, Volume 1

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 574 pages
...the one end, which all means go to effect Ì They are for nothing but to insjnre^ Lhad better never see a book, than to be warped by its attraction clean...orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system?! Xhe^n&jtoig.^ VOL I. 3 D may be, but not yet flame. There are creative manners, there are creative...
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Miscellanies: Embracing Nature, Addresses, and Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 336 pages
...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 warped by its attraction clean...and made a satellite instead of a system. The one tbinff in tlie world, of value, is t\\e acV\Ne, vs«L Tlus every man is eutided to; tills CVCTJ wa.\\....
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Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson ..., Volume 5

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1880 - 328 pages
...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 warped by its attraction clean...active soul. This every man is entitled to ; this every man contains within Mm, although, in almost all men, obstructed, and as jet unborn. (The soul...
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Nature, Addresses, and Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 390 pages
...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 warped by its attraction clean...active soul. This every man is entitled to ; this every man contains within him, although in almost all men obstructed, and as yet unborn. The soul active...
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Representative Men: Nature, Addresses and Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 674 pages
...the one end which all means go to effect ? They are for nothing but to inspire. I bad better never see a book than to be warped by its attraction clean...active soul. This every man is entitled to : this every man contains within him. although in almost nil men obstructed, and as yet unborn. The soul active...
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