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. The Essay on Self-reliance - Page 2by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1905 - 51 pagesFull view - About this book
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 pages
...and clearer than before you read the play ? Does E. mean that we should always express our opinions ? they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty....teach us to abide by our spontaneous impression with good-humored inflexibility then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side. Else, to-morrow... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 396 pages
...Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognise our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with...teach us to abide by our spontaneous impression with good-humoured inflexibility then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side. Else, to-morrow... | |
| 1842 - 740 pages
...grandest strokes, there we feel most at home.'— Essay i., p. 6. ' In every work of genius we recognise our own rejected thoughts ; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.' — Essay ii., p. 46. This is cheering as to the potentiality of the species. Hence there can be little... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 354 pages
...the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected...teach us to abide by our spontaneous impression with good-humored inflexibility then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side. Else, to-morrow... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognise our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with...teach us to abide by our spontaneous impression with good-humoured inflexibility then most when • the whole cry of voices is on the other side. Else,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognise our own rejected thoughts : they come back to us with...majesty. Great works of art have no more affecting D lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide by ou spontaneous impression with good humoured inflexibility... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognise our own rejected thoughts : they come back to us with...us to abide by our spontaneous impression with good humoured inflexibility then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side. Else, to-morrow... | |
| Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognise our own rejected thoughts : they come back to us with...us to abide by our spontaneous impression with good humoured inflexibility then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side. Else, to-morrow... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 354 pages
...the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected...teach us to abide by our spontaneous impression with good-humored inflexibility then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side. Else, to-morrow... | |
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