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. Essays, First Series - Page 43by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 290 pagesFull view - About this book
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 pages
...verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional. Always the soul hears an admonition in such lines, let the subject be what it may. The sentiment they instill is of more value than any thought they may contain. To believe your own thought, to believe... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 354 pages
...written by an eminent painter whjp.h-ivftre. 9 r 'g'Ha! and not conventional. The soul always hears an admonition in such lines, let the subject be what...than any thought they may contain. To believe your nwp thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, — that... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional. Always the soul hears an admonition in such lines, let the subject be what...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... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...verses written by an eminent painter, which were original and not conventional. Always the soul hears an admonition in such lines, let the subject be what...believe your own thought, to believe that what is tnie for you in your private heart, is true for all men— that is genius. Speak your latent conviction,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional. Always the soul hears an admonition in such lines, let the subject be what...any thought they may contain. To believe your own thought^to believe that what is true for you in your private heaVt, is true for all men, — that is... | |
| 1849 - 538 pages
...Essay on " Self- Reliance " meets us next, and this is bolder still. " To believe your own thoughts, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, — that is Genius." And happily this genius, we find, may be the lot of all, at least of every Emersonian : the fact is... | |
| 1849 - 1052 pages
...Essay on " Self-Reliance 1 " meets us next, and this is bolder still. " To believe your own thoughts. to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is HIM for all men,—that is Genius." And happily this genius, we find, may be the lot of all, at least... | |
| 1850 - 524 pages
...thus taught what is genius: — "To believe your own thought, to believe that which is true for yon in your private heart, is true for all men — that is genius." We believe that the history of certain human opinioas, which have been put-forth as the sincere convictioas... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1852 - 352 pages
...verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional. The soul always hears an admonition in such lines, let the subject be what...any thought they may contain. * To believe your own thqugljt^j.0 be; lieve that what is true forypu 'm JQUK.. private hear^ is_true for all menj — thatis... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1906 - 870 pages
...bottom until he thought the truth was reached. He believed in his own thoughts, and, as Emerson said, ' To believe your own thought, to believe that what...private heart is true for all men, that is genius.' Then he had a splendid boldness in brushing difficulties aside, following Lord Bacon's aphorism —... | |
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