 | Fredrika Bremer - 1858 - 702 pages
...soul, is 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...genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts ; they conic back to us with a certain alienated majesty. Great works of art have no more affecting lesson... | |
 | John Relly Beard - 1860 - 202 pages
...Luke, 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...than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. There is a poor blind man who every day, In summer sunshine, or in winter's rain, Daily as tolls the... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1864 - 626 pages
...is 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...than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages." "Kingdom and lordship, power and estate, are a gaudier vocabulary than private John and Edward in a... | |
 | Andrew Jackson Davis - 1867 - 422 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 Hashes across his mind from within, more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages. 3 We... | |
 | 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...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, which makes... | |
 | 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...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, which makes... | |
 | 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...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, which makes... | |
 | Alfred Barron - 1875 - 336 pages
...as are 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...it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty." IV. ALWAYS have a particular... | |
 | Alfred Barron - 1875 - 344 pages
...as are 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...it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty." IV. ALWAYS have a particular... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 300 pages
...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 watch that gleam...we recognize our own rejected thoughts : they come hack to us with a certain alienated majesty. Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us... | |
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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. 
