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From Emerson's Essays, by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments.  Books are for
the scholars' 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 starts withdraw their
shining,---we repair to the lamps which were kindled by their ray,
to guide our steps to the East again, where the dawn is.
		-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The American Scholar", p. 68

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