| Fredrika Bremer - 1853 - 664 pages
...that they set books and traditions at naught, and spoke oot what men. but what they thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre oi the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought,... | |
| Fredrika Bremer - 1854 - 676 pages
...that they set books and traditions at naught, and spoke not what men. but what they thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre ol the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought,... | |
| Kenelm Henry Digby - 1856 - 418 pages
...retain them ; and this again is one of its excellent effects ; for, as a great author says, " 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,... | |
| John Relly Beard - 1860 - 202 pages
...iv. 18. None so blind as they who will not see. Light is. light, though the blind see it not. 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. There is a poor blind man who every day,... | |
| Theodore Parker - 1864 - 626 pages
...that they set at nonght books and traditions, and spoke not what men said but what they thought. 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." "Kingdom and lordship, power and estate,... | |
| Andrew Jackson Davis - 1868 - 412 pages
...saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine. 2 A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages. 3 We lie in the lap of immense intelligence,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 pages
...is, that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men but what thev thought. 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,... | |
| Giles Badger Stebbins - 1872 - 408 pages
...philosopher, to the saint, all things are sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages. We lie in the lap of immense intelligence,... | |
| Giles Badger Stebbins - 1872 - 416 pages
...philosopher, to the saint, all things are sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages. We lie in the lap of immense intelligence,... | |
| Alfred Barron - 1875 - 344 pages
...in me, and I shall go on without fear of the charge of plagiarism. A modern writer well says, "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,... | |
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