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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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Vocational Guidance: Practical Ethics for the Day's Work

Matthew Hale Wilson - 1916 - 334 pages
...warped by its attractions 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...in almost all men obstructed, and as yet unborn." It is particularly noticeable in adults that they do only the common things. They have often suppressed...
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American Ideals

Norman Foerster, William Whatley Pierson, William Whatley Pierson (Jr.) - 1917 - 344 pages
...The One thing in the world, of value, is the active soul. This every man is entitled to; this avery man contains within him, although in almost all men...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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American Ideals

Norman Foerster, William Whatley Pierson, William Whatley Pierson (Jr.) - 1917 - 342 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. This every man is entitled to; this avery man contains within him, although in almost all men obstructed, and as yet unborn. The soul active...
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How to Speak: Designed as a Textbook for the Business Man and Woman

Edwin Gordon Lawrence - 1918 - 204 pages
...attractions clean out of my own orbit and made a satellite instead of a system. The one thing in all the world of value is the active soul. This every...almost all men, obstructed, and as yet unborn. The mighty truth contained in this quotation applies not only to books, but to everything that influences...
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Michigan Alumnus, Volume 26

1919 - 786 pages
...of value in the world is an active soul — this every man is entitled to,' — this every man has within him, although in almost all men obstructed and as yet unborn." May the obstructions be torn away and the splendidly noble life within each one of you gradually be...
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Essays and Poems of Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 584 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 nan. In its essence, it is progressive. The book, the college, the school of...
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Essays and Poems of Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 580 pages
...attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system. The one thing in thejgorld, of^ value, is the active soul. This every man is entitled...the privilege of here and there a favorite, but the sound estate of every nan. In its essence, it is progressive. The book, the college, the school of...
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The President's Report to the Board of Regents

1922 - 320 pages
...thing in the world, of value, is an active soul. This every man is entitled to ; this every man has within him, although in almost all men obstructed and as yet unborn." Here is the tragedy of life and the challenge of education. Every citizen should be assisted in laying...
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The President's Report to the Board of Regents for the Academic Year ...

University of Michigan - 1922 - 307 pages
...thing in the world, of value, is an active soul. This every man is entitled to ; this every man has within him, although in almost all men obstructed and as yet unborn." Here is the tragedy of life and the challenge of education. Every citizen should be assisted in laying...
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The Oral Study of Literature

Algernon de Vivier Tassin - 1923 - 456 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...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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