There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and die sense of our author is... Representative Men: Nature, Addresses and Lectures - Página 94de Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 648 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 590 páginas
...in libraries when they wrote these books. . . . One must be an inventor to read well. As the proverb says, 'He that would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry out the wealth of the Indies.' . . . When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous... | |
| Theodore Parker - 1892 - 278 páginas
...enjoys much ; the careless and the foolish see little and enjoy little. There is an old proverb, " He that would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry out the wealth of the Indies." All things are yours on condition that you know how to use them. The gates will only open to him who... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 356 páginas
...— I said; — yet there is room for a gloss or commentary on what you say. "He who would bring back the wealth of the Indies must carry out the wealth of the Indies." What you bring away from the Bible depends to some extent on what you carry to it. — Benjamin Franklin... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 382 páginas
...— I said; — yet there is room for a gloss or commentary on what you say. "He who would bring back the wealth of the Indies must carry out the wealth of the Indies." What you bring away from the Bible depends to some extent on what you carry to it. — Benjamin Franklin... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 126 páginas
...that it needs a strong head to bear that diet. One must be an inventor to read well. As the proverb says, " He that would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry out the wealth of the Indies." 1 There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and... | |
| Orison Swett Marden - 1894 - 480 páginas
...ourselves, that we are underlings. SHAKESPEARE. Every one is the son of his own works. — CERVANTES. He that would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry out the wealth of the Indies. — OLD ADAGE. A rase is begun ; why, as the wheel goes round, does it turn out • pitcher ? — HORACE.... | |
| John Franklin Genung - 1895 - 520 páginas
...creative reading." Mr. Emerson says : ' — " One must be an inventor to read well. As the proverb says, ' He that would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must cany out the wealth of the Indies.' There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When... | |
| Orison Swett Marden - 1896 - 490 páginas
...ourselves, that we are underlings. SHAKESPEARE. Every one is the son of his own works. — CERVANTES. He that would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry out the wealth of the Indies. — OLD ADAQE. A vase is begun ; why, as the wheel goes round, does it turn out a pitcher ? — HORACE.... | |
| Orison Swett Marden - 1896 - 488 páginas
...ourselves, that we are underlings. SHAKESPEARE. Every one is the son of his own works. — CERVANTES. He that would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry out the wealth of the Indies. — OLD ADAGE. A vase is begun ; why, as the wheel goes round, does it turn out a pitcher ? — HORACK.... | |
| 1896 - 374 páginas
...that it needs a strong head to bear that diet. One must be an inventor to read well. As the proverb says, " He that would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must cany out the wealth of the Indies." l There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When... | |
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