 Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to 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 watch that gleam of...  Emerson's Complete Works: Essays. 1st series - Page 47by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883Full view - About this book
 | 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...than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages.' It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our... | |
 | 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...than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. " That gleam is the inflowing of God, or of Nature, which is the manifestation of God, or of the Over-Soul,... | |
 | 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...flashes across his mind from within, more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it... | |
 | Leland Todd Powers - 1916 - 172 pages
...voice of the mind is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and Milton is 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 of light which flashes across his mind from within,... | |
 | 1923 - 434 pages
...expense of that fine individualism of the Oxonian who, like Emerson's scholar, "learns to detect the gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within more than the lustre of firmament of bards and sages." In general, the disposition to separate sharply the debating from the... | |
 | James Cloyd Bowman - 1918 - 504 pages
...the voice of the mind is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and Milton is 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... | |
 | 1919 - 966 pages
...as the voice of the mind is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato and Milton is that never learned of schools, luster of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it... | |
 | Enoch Burton Gowin - 1919 - 552 pages
...within themselves. "Trust thyself," says Ralph Waldo Emerson, "every heart vibrates to that iron string. 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." The man who would accomplish exceptional things should... | |
 | George McCready Price - 1920 - 248 pages
...all 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...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 natural science... | |
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