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Essays - Page 41
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 333 pages
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Chapters from the Bible of the Ages

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...
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Chapters from the Bible of the Ages

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...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: His Life, Writings, and Philosophy

George Willis Cooke - 1881 - 406 pages
...tip.pd nf San 1 -trust, of accepting that . teaching which the Universal Mind gives to every persqn. " A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind within, more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages."3 He is to trust that power within,...
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The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Critical writings

Theodore Parker - 1865 - 324 pages
...Moses, Plato, and Milton, is that they set at nought books and traditions, and spoke not what men said but what they thought. A man should learn to detect...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...
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Complete Works

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1900 - 356 pages
...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...firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without noiice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts...
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Transactions (Cofnodion a chyfansoddiadau).

Eisteddfod genedlaethol Cymru - 1884 - 564 pages
...interpret what we see and experience. " — (Channing). " A man should learn to detect and watch the gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within more than the lustre of the firmament of the bards and sages." — (Emerson). Nid oes dadl nad yw sylwadaeth yn dwyn dyddordeb mawr. Ac nid...
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Sixth Or Classic English Reader

William Swinton - 1885 - 624 pages
...we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and Milton is, that they set at naught books and traditions, and spake not what men but what they thought. A man should learn...flashes across his mind from within, more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion...
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Swinton's First [-sixth] Reader, Book 6

William Swinton - 1885 - 620 pages
...we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and Milton is, that they set at naught books and traditions, and spake not what men but what they thought. A man should learn...flashes across his mind from within, more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion...
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Essays, Volume 2

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 802 pages
...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...than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Xe* he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize...
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Meyer Brothers Druggist, Volume 36

1915 - 464 pages
...privilege of purchasing a ticket, price one dollar. Apply to Chairman LA Seitz. Do You WATCH FOB IT? — A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across the mind from within, more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without...
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