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" Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. "
Essays: First Series - Page 53
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 396 pages
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The Lord's Prayer: A Vision of To-day, a Series of Essays

Henry Harrison Brown - 1914 - 234 pages
...God bless us every one. —Tiny Tin >v> Henry Harrison Brown, 589 H .light St. San Francisco, Cal. Trust thyself! Every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place Divine Providence has found for you. Emerson. I trust myself! My heart vibrates to that iron strinar....
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Eleven Roads to Success Charted by St. Louisans who Have Traveled Them

Walter Barlow Stevens - 1914 - 72 pages
...advantages." And here is a summing up of advice to young men which Mr. Francis quotes from Emerson: ' ' Trust thyself ; every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place Divine Providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events."...
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Emerson's Essays on Manners, Self-reliance, Compensation, Nature, Friendship

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1915 - 200 pages
...does not deliver. In the attempt his genius deserts him; no muse befriends ; no invention, no hope. 5 Trust thyself : every heart vibrates to that iron...themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying 10 their perception that the Eternal was stirring at their heart, working through their hands, predominating...
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Readings from American Literature: A Textbook for Schools and Colleges

Mary Edwards Calhoun, Emma Leonora MacAlarney - 1915 - 670 pages
...does not deliver. In the attempt his genius deserts him ; no muse befriends ; no invention, no hope. always done so, and confided themselves childlike...of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through their hands, predominating in all...
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Practice Book: Leland Powers School

Leland Todd Powers - 1916 - 172 pages
...does not deliver. In the attempt his genius deserts him; no muse befriends; no invention, no hope. 7. Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string....found for you; the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius...
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Readings in English Literature

Roy Bennett Pace - 1917 - 536 pages
...60 what a saint has felt, he may feel ; what at any time has befallen any man, he can understand." "Trust thyself! every heart vibrates to that iron...contemporaries, the connexion of events. Great men have 65 always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age; betraying their perception...
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The Political Writings

John Dewey - 1993 - 276 pages
...said that "society is everywhere in conspiracy against its members" also said, and in the same essay, "accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events." Now, when events are taken in disconnection and considered apart from the interactions...
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Cohesion and Dissent in America

Carol Colatrella, Joseph Alkana - 1994 - 278 pages
...'thus I willed it,'" Emerson's self-reliance is a mode of self-trust that calls upon the individual to "accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events." Where Nietzsche speaks in the far-future tense, addressing unknown, future friends,...
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The Concept of Faith: A Philosophical Investigation

William Lad Sessions - 1994 - 324 pages
...lacking; but what then might stand IO2. "Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. . . . Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, beConfidence Model [ 97 in its place? Initially, one might think to distinguish two nonconfident conditions:...
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God in the Stadium: Sports and Religion in America

Robert J. Higgs - 1995 - 404 pages
...success" (quoted in Stessel 173). A justly famous passage from "Self-Reliance" summarizes the position: "Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron...found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius...
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