 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.  College Life - Page 157by Maurice Garland Fulton - 1914 - 524 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Alfred Hall - 1915 - 260 pages
...to bring even his words to the test of human experience, thought, and aspiration. Emerson said : ' A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across the mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages.'1 Could Jesus have... | |
 | George Wharton James - 1916 - 326 pages
...desire to know that led him to write the hymn. What a profound truth Emerson said when he wrote : " A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his." The italics are mine. Why will men rely more upon written words than upon the flashes of illuminated... | |
 | George Van Ness Dearborn - 1916 - 248 pages
...Moses, Plato, and Milton 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...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... | |
 | Matthew Hale Wilson - 1916 - 354 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...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... | |
 | George Frederick Gundelfinger - 1916 - 348 pages
...to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, — that is genius.' A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages.' It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | Leland Todd Powers - 1916 - 172 pages
...that 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...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... | |
 | 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...than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages. 3 We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes ua receivers of its truth and organs of its... | |
 | Suzanne R. Kirschner - 1996 - 260 pages
...transform 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,... | |
 | Daryl Bernstein, Joe Hammond - 1996 - 228 pages
...your 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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