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" What is not good for virtue, is good for knowledge. Hence his contemporaries tax him with plagiarism. But the inventor only knows how to borrow; and society is glad to forget the innumerable... "
In a Club Corner: The Monologue of a Man who Might Have Been Sociable - Page 41
by Addison Peale Russell - 1890 - 328 pages
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The Palladium: a monthly journal, Volumes 1-2

1850 - 744 pages
...built up a shapely mansion, and the most of whose wisdom and wit might be printed in inverted commas. " Every book is a quotation ; and every house is a quotation out of all forests and mines and stone-quarries ; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors — and this grasping inventor...
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Representative Men: Seven Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 270 pages
...praising Plato, it seems we are praising quotations from Solon, and Sophron, and Philolaus, Be it so. Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, mines, and stone quarries : and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors : and this grasping...
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Literature and Its Professors

Thomas Purnell - Literature - 1867 - 316 pages
...different definition. Mr. Emerson supposes a great man to be " one who has " a large stomach," — " one of great affinities, who " takes up into himself all arts, sciences — all know" ables— as his food; who can spare nothing; who " can dispose of everything." Such a man we...
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The Christian Ambassador, Volume 6

Theology - 1868 - 396 pages
...distinguished for earnestness and sincerity. Waldo Emerson says, " A great man is one who has a large stomach ; one of great affinities, who takes up into himself all arts, sciences, all knowables as his food, who can spare nothing, who can dispose of everything." Such a man we confess never yet to have known...
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Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 500 pages
...only of his school. Plato, too, like every great man, consumed his own times. What is a great man, but one of great affinities, who takes up into himself all arts, sciences, all knowables, as his food 1 He can spare nothing; he can dispose of everything. What is not good for virtue, is good for knowledge....
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The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 504 pages
...only of his school. Plato, too, like every great man, consumed his own times. What is a great man, but one of great affinities, who takes up into himself all arts, sciences, all knowables, as his food 1 He can spare nothing ; he can dispose of everything. What is not good for virtue, is good for knowledge....
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The Fire Underwriters' Text-book

Jeremiah Griswold - Fire insurance - 1872 - 850 pages
...the field and in the office. In its preparation — holding with Mr. Emerson, when he says : — " Every book is a quotation ; and every house is a quotation out of all forests and mines aud stone-quarries ; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors," especial effort has been...
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The Great Conversers: And Other Essays

William Mathews - 1876 - 322 pages
...scorn, and declared that it was an author's duty to use all that was suggested to him from any quarter. "What is a great man," asks Emerson, " but one of...mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors." There are some minds, and those, too, really productive, .that require the...
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Souvenir Nineteenth Annual Congress of the Association for the Advancement ...

Association for the Advancement of Women - Women - 1877 - 404 pages
...transmitted to others ; and by constant repetition became instincts and dispositions. Emerson says, " Every book is a quotation, and every house is a quotation, out of mines, forests and stone quarries ; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors." We see in...
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Southern Collegian, Volume 13

Lexington (Va.) - 1880 - 406 pages
...we cherish so fondly, would go for nothing. The author quotes from Emerson : " What is a great man but one of great affinities, who takes up into himself...is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out ot all forests and mines and stone quarries ; and every irnn is a quotation from all his ancestors."...
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