...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...

...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,...

...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...

...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...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...

...detect and watch that gleam of light which 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 is his. <I In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain...

...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...

...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...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. _ In every work of genius we recognize ou* own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain...