 | Leland Todd Powers - 1916 - 172 pages
...they all set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men but what they thought. 2. 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,... | |
 | Matthew Hale Wilson - 1916 - 336 pages
...beautifully about failing to develop individuality as teachers. In his Essay on Self-reliance he 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,... | |
 | 1916 - 548 pages
...declares with the conviction, at once proud and humble, of one conscious of his own high spiritual gifts, "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. " That gleam is the inflowing of God, or... | |
 | Frank Aydelotte - 1917 - 420 pages
...that they set at nought books and traditions, 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 of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Trine - 1917 - 258 pages
...lives have been lives of accomplishment and service for their fellow-men. Emerson, who said: "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,... | |
 | James Cloyd Bowman - 1918 - 504 pages
...that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men did, 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 luster of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought,... | |
 | Enoch Burton Gowin - 1919 - 552 pages
...themselves. "Trust thyself," says Ralph Waldo Emerson, "every heart vibrates to that iron string. 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." The man who would accomplish exceptional... | |
 | 1919 - 966 pages
...that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men, but what they thought. A man we tread, s And sorrow crown each lingering year. No path we shun, no darkness dread. Our hearts more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought,... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1919 - 512 pages
...is, that they set at naught books and traditions, 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 of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought,... | |
 | George McCready Price - 1920 - 248 pages
...men, — that is genius. Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense. ... A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the luster of bards and sages." We have seen several examples of how this method works in... | |
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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. 
