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To believe your own thought , to believe that what is true for you in your private heart , is true for all men , -that is genius . Speak your latent conviction and it shall be the universal sense ; for always the inmost becomes the ...
To believe your own thought , to believe that what is true for you in your private heart , is true for all men , -that is genius . Speak your latent conviction and it shall be the universal sense ; for always the inmost becomes the ...
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In every work of genius we recog . nize our own rejected thoughts : they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty . Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this . They teach us to abide by our spontaneous ...
In every work of genius we recog . nize our own rejected thoughts : they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty . Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this . They teach us to abide by our spontaneous ...
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A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best ; but what he has said or done otherwise , shall give him no peace . It is a deliverance which does not deliver . In the at . tempt his genius deserts ...
A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best ; but what he has said or done otherwise , shall give him no peace . It is a deliverance which does not deliver . In the at . tempt his genius deserts ...
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Great men have always done so and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age , betraying their perception that the Eternal was stirring at their heart , working through their hands , predominating in all their being .
Great men have always done so and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age , betraying their perception that the Eternal was stirring at their heart , working through their hands , predominating in all their being .
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I shun father and mother and wife and brother , when my genius calls me . I would write on the lintels of the door - post , Whim . I hope it is somewhat better than whim at last , but we cannot spend the day in explanation .
I shun father and mother and wife and brother , when my genius calls me . I would write on the lintels of the door - post , Whim . I hope it is somewhat better than whim at last , but we cannot spend the day in explanation .
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| Title | The Essay on Self-reliance |
| Author | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Publisher | The Roycrofters, 1908 |
| Original from | The Ohio State University |
| Digitized | 8 Dec 2015 |
| Length | 82 pages |
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