Miscellanies (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Also known as Miscellanies: Nature, Addresses, and Lectures
A work by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Young scholars wrongly defer to the views of great authors, forgetting those authors were once young men in libraries too, Books are the best of things when used well, and among the worst when abused, Action is subordinate for a scholar but essential; without it thought cannot ripen into truth …
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- There are 8 claims from it on korrents, each quoted word for word.
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What korrents draws from it
korrents’ reading of claims quoted word for word from the book; each opens the quote and where it sits.
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Young scholars wrongly defer to the views of great authors, forgetting those authors were once young men in libraries too (opens korrents.com)1
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Books are the best of things when used well, and among the worst when abused (opens korrents.com)1
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Action is subordinate for a scholar but essential; without it thought cannot ripen into truth (opens korrents.com)1
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Americans have listened too long to European culture, and the American spirit is suspected of being timid and imitative (opens korrents.com)1
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Another soul can provoke me but not instruct me; I must find what it says true in myself or reject it (opens korrents.com)1
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