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" 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 warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system. The one... "
Miscellanies, Embracing Nature, Addresses, and Lectures - Page 86
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 383 pages
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The Practical Elements of Rhetoric: With Illustrative Examples

John Franklin Genung - 1894 - 580 pages
...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....utters truth, or creates. In this action it is genius; hot the privilege of here and there a favorite, but the sound estate of every man." Creative reading,...
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Select American Classics: Being Selections from Irving's Sketch Book and ...

1896 - 374 pages
...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....the privilege of here and there a favorite, but the sound estate of every man. In its essence, it is progressive. The book, the college, the school of...
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Poems and Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1897 - 264 pages
...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....the privilege of here and there a favorite, but the sound estate of every man. In its essence it is progressive. The book, the college, the school of art,...
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Emerson: And Other Essays

John Jay Chapman - 1898 - 270 pages
...is the one end which all means go to effect? They are for nothing but to inspire. . . . 18 The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul....the privilege of here and there a favorite, but the sound estate of every man. . . . Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over-influence....
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Emerson: And Other Essays

John Jay Chapman - 1898 - 264 pages
...They are for nothing but to inspire. . . . 18 The one thing in the world, of value, is the act- J ive soul. This every man is entitled to; this every man...the privilege of here and there a favorite, but the sound estate of every man. . . . Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over-influence....
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Emerson: And Other Essays

John Jay Chapman - 1898 - 276 pages
...is the one end which all means go to effect? They are for nothing but to inspire. . . . 18 The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul....The soul active sees absolute truth and utters truth J or creates, j In this action it is genius; not the privilege of here and there a favorite, but the...
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Complete Works

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899 - 386 pages
...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....the privilege of here and there a favorite, but the sound estate of every man. In its essence it is progressive. The book, the college, the school of art,...
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Working Principles of Rhetoric ...

John Franklin Genung - 1900 - 702 pages
...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....the privilege of here and there a favorite, but the sound estate of every man." — EMF.RSON, The American Scholar, Works, Vol. i, p. 91. with Diligence...
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The American Scholar: An Address

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1901 - 142 pages
...system. 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...unborn. The soul active sees absolute truth ; and otters truth, or creates. In this action it is genius ; not the privilege of here and there a favorite,...
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History, Self-reliance, Nature, Spiritual Laws, The American Scholar

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 206 pages
...satellite instead of a system. (The one thing in the.' \vorld, of value, is the active soul. ^ Thisevery man is entitled to ; this every man contains within...almost all men. obstructed, and as yet unborn. The soul1 active sees absolute truth and utters truth, or creates. In this action it is genius; not; the...
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