 | George Eliot - England - 1899 - 308 pages
...nothing is the young gtudent so timid and uncertain as in regard to his own opinion. Unless he learns " to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within," it will soon be obscured and lost. TOPICS FOR STUDY. PART I. 1. When and where does the plot of " Silas... | |
 | Horatio Willis Dresser - Human beings - 1899 - 288 pages
...Emerson, the greatest prophet of self-reliance, says : " 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 bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1901 - 554 pages
...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...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 Henry Lewes - Authorship - 1901 - 226 pages
...Milton," says Emerson, " is that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men thought, but what they thought. A man should learn to detect...and watch that gleam of light which flashes across hia mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 206 pages
...naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men, but what they thought. A man should learn to~3etect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. VYet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it... | |
 | Israel C. McNeill, Samuel Adams Lynch - English literature - 1901 - 398 pages
...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 i", light which flashes across his mind from within more than the luster of the firmament of bards... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - Self-reliance - 1902 - 66 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...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... | |
 | Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denney - English language - 1902 - 408 pages
...Plato, and Milton, is, that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men thought but what they thought. 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. Yet he dismisses without... | |
 | Sherwin Cody - English essays - 1903 - 476 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 478 pages
...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...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... | |
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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. 
