 | Benjamin Alexander Heydrick - 1921 - 432 pages
...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,... | |
 | William Ellsworth Smythe - 1921 - 328 pages
...orator himself realized all that he was saying; or whether he simply followed Emerson's counsel : "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." Consciously or unconsciously, he reflected... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 580 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,... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - 1921 - 316 pages
...implicit, in any one of his great passages: — the clear call to self-reliance, announcing that "a man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within"; the firm assurance that, through all the balanced play of circumstance, " there is a deeper fact in... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - 1921 - 518 pages
...implicit, in any one of his great passages: — the clear call to self-reliance, announcing that "a man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within"; the firm assurance that, through all the balanced play of circumstance, "there is a deeper fact in... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - 1921 - 314 pages
...implicit, in any one of his great passages: — the clear call to self-reliance, announcing that "a man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within"; the firm assurance that, through all the balanced play of circumstance, "there is a deeper fact in... | |
 | Shawn James Rosenheim, Stephen Rachman - 1995 - 388 pages
...watchfully to what it is we are conscious of and altering our posture toward it. For example: "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 own thought,... | |
 | Suzanne R. Kirschner - 1996 - 260 pages
...the religion of the inner light into a literal worship of the self, with his exhortation that "a man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within . . . Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind." Correspondingly, he asserted,... | |
 | Andrew J Davis - 1996 - 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,... | |
 | Daryl Bernstein, Joe Hammond - 1996 - 228 pages
...city, your industry, or in society as a whole. Follow Your Instincts Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize... | |
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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. 
