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" Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can read God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings. But when the intervals of darkness come, as come they must, -when the sun is hid and the stars withdraw... "
The American Scholar: An Address - Page 18
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1901 - 116 pages
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The Microcosm: Or, Little World of Home, Volumes 1-3

1835 - 616 pages
...scholar's idle times. When he can read God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in oilier men's transcripts of their readings. But when the...hear that we may speak. The Arabian proverb says, 'A fig tree look, ing on a fig tree, becometh fruitful.' wrote and the same reads. We read the verses...
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Nature; Addresses, and Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 408 pages
...men's transcripts of their readings. But when the intervals of darkness come, as come they must, — when the sun is hid, and the stars withdraw their...hear, that we may speak. The Arabian proverb says, "A fig tree, looking on a fig tree, becometh fruitful." It is remarkable, the character of the pleasure...
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Eliza Cook's journal, Volume 6

430 pages
...obligation to the inspiriting and fortifying influences of his genins. We turn to it with confidence, " when the intervals of darkness come, as come they...the stars withdraw their shining, — we repair to this lamp, which was kindled by their ray, to guide our steps to the East again, where the dawn is...
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Miscellanies: Embracing Nature, Addresses, and Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 404 pages
...men's transcripts of their readings. But when the intervals of darkness come, as come they must, — when the sun is hid, and the stars withdraw their...hear, that we may speak. The Arabian proverb says, " A fig tree, looking on a fig tree, becometh fruitful." It is remarkable, the character of the pleasure...
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Wisconsin Journal of Education, Volume 28

1898 - 404 pages
...men's transcripts of their readings. But when the intervals of darkness come, as come they must, — 'when the sun is hid, and the stars withdraw their...guide our steps to the East again, where the dawn is. I would not be hurried by any love of system, by any exaggeration of in¡ stincts, to underrate the...
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Miscellanies: Embracing Nature, Addresses, and Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 402 pages
...men's transcripts of their readings. But when the intervals of darkness come, as come they must, — when the sun is hid, and the stars withdraw their shining, — we repair to the lamps which \vere kindled by their ray, to guide our steps to the East again, where the dawn is. We hear, that...
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The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays ..., Volume 2

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 472 pages
...men's transcripts of their readings. But when the intervals of darkness come, as come they must, — when the sun is hid, and the stars withdraw their...hear, that we may speak. The Arabian proverb says, " A fig tree, looking on a fig tree, becometh fruitful." It is remarkable, the character of the pleasure...
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Nature: Addresses, and Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 326 pages
...men's transcripts of their readings. But when the intervals of darkness come, as come they must, — when the sun is hid, and the stars withdraw their...which were kindled by their ray, to guide our steps to tli3 East again, whsre the dawn is. We hear, that we may speak. The Arabian proverb says, " A fig-tree,...
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Education

1921 - 744 pages
...manuscripts of their readings. But when intervals of darkness come, as come they must, • — then the sun is hid, and the stars withdraw their shining,...guide our steps to the East again, where the dawn is. ..." The educational implication of this problem was pointed out by Spencer9 half a century ago. "With...
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Works, Volume 1

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 394 pages
...men's transcripts of their readings. But when the intervals of darkness come, as come they must, — when the sun is hid and the stars withdraw their shining,...hear, that we may speak. The Arabian proverb says, " A fig tree, looking on a fig tree, becometh fruitful." It is remarkable, the character of the pleasure...
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