 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 pages
...is genius. Speak your latent conviction and it shall be the universal sense; for always the inmost becomes the outmost, — and our first thought is...flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 324 pages
...genius. Speak your latent conviction and it shall be the universal sense ; for al- 1 ways the inmost becomes the outmost, — and our first thought is...flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 354 pages
...Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Mnsps, Platr^gjH Mil ton is, that they set at naught books and traditions,...flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...latent conviction and it shall be the universal sense; for always the inmost becomes the outmost,—and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets...flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...mind is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and Milton is, that they set at nought books and traditions, and spoke not what men, but...flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bard and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it... | |
 | Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...is genius. Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense ; for always the inmost becomes the outmost, — and our first thought is...flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...is genius. Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense ; for always the inmost becomes the outmost, — and our first thought is...flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 354 pages
...sentiment they instil is of more value than any thought they may contain. To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private...flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 352 pages
...sentiment they instil is of more value than any thought they may contain. To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private...flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it... | |
 | 1849 - 448 pages
...present condition : " No man ever prayed heartily, without learning something." — Nature, p. 92. " The highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and...flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages." " Kingdom and lordship, power and estate are a gaudier... | |
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A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we... 
