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Flashes Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the luster of the…
- Look out into the July night, and see the broad belt of silver flame which flashes up the half of heaven, fresh and delicate as…
- The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions, inspirations, flashes of genius.
- 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…
- When I converse with a profound mind, or if at any time being alone I have good thoughts, I do not at once arrive at…
More Flashes Quotes
- Clairvoyants can see flashes of colour, constantly changing, in the aura that surrounds every person: each thought, each feeling, thus translating itself… — Annie Besant
- I'm an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger. What works for me is working out… — Alan Alda
- Houses - the dark side silhouetted on flashes of moonlight! — William Carlos Williams
- Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven. — Henry David Thoreau
- Animals, even plants, lie to each other all the time, and we could restrict the research to them, putting off the real… — Lewis Thomas
- Like all good things, prayer requires some discipline. Yet I believe that life with God should seem more like friendship than duty.… — Philip Yancey
- I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But… — Katherine Anne Porter
- Lock yourself up in your room or go out in the woods where you an be alone. When you are alone the… — Walter Russell
- After Gibbs, one the most distinguished [American scientists] was Langley, of the Smithsonian. ... He had the physicist's heinous fault of professing… — Henry Adams
- Even the facts of science may dust the mind by their dryness, unless they are ... rendered fertile by the dews of… — Henry David Thoreau
- Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved. It has arrested ten… — Richard Chenevix Trench
- The happiness of life consists, like the day, not in single flashes (of light), but in one continuous mild serenity. The most… — Jean Paul