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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 Story of Our Literature: An Interpretation of the American Spirit

John Louis Haney - 1923 - 484 pages
...things, well used; abused, among the worst. . . . They are for nothing but to inspire. . . . The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul....although in almost all men obstructed, and as yet unborn. . . . Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he reads God directly, the hour is too precious...
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Century Readings for a Course in American Literature

Fred Lewis Pattee - 1922 - 1086 pages
...perfect. As no air- every man contains within him, although pump can by any means make a perfect • in almost all men obstructed, and as yet unborn. The soul active sees absolute verses. There is some awe mixed with truth and utters truth, or creates. In this the joy of our surprise,...
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Emerson's Essays and Poems: Selected and Edited with an Introd

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 412 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...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 Literature

Robert Shafer - 1926 - 1410 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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Further Adventures in Essay Reading

Thomas Ernest Rankin, Amos Reno Morris, Melvin Theodor Solve, Carlton Frank Wells - 1928 - 612 pages
...be warped by its attraction clean out of my 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 second estate of every man. In its essence it is progressive. The book, the college, the school of...
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Nature, Addresses, and Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1971 - 316 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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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays and Lectures (LOA #15): Nature; Addresses, and ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1983 - 1196 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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American Philosophy: A Historical Anthology

Barbara MacKinnon - 1985 - 710 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's Pragmatic Vision: The Dance of the Eye

David Jacobson - 2010 - 221 pages
..."This every man is entitled to," Emerson goes on to write, effectively summarizing his humanist faith, "this every man contains within him, although in almost...sees absolute truth; and utters truth, or creates" (CW 1:56). Emerson's early transcendentalism had always carried a practical and pragmatic value, and...
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Nationalism: Five Roads to Modernity

Liah Greenfeld - 1992 - 600 pages
...better never see a book, than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit . . . The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul....although in almost all men, obstructed, and as yet unborn ... it is ... not the privilege of here and there a favorite, but the sound estate of every man.129...
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