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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. "
Emerson's Complete Works: Essays. 1st series - Page 49
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883
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The Effective Speaking Voice: With Passages for Practical Application

Joseph Albert Mosher - 1920 - 308 pages
...does not deliver. In the attempt his genius deserts him ; no muse befriends ; no invention, no hope. Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string....themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying the perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through their hands,...
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Types of the Essay

Benjamin Alexander Heydrick - 1921 - 432 pages
...does not deliver. In the attempt his genius deserts him; no muse befriends; no invention, no hope. Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string....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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Essays and Poems of Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 584 pages
...does not deliver. In the attempt his genius deserts him; no muse befriends; no invention, np hope. /Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron...(Accept the place the divine Providence has found for you;y* the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events/ Great men have always done so,...
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Essays and Poems of Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 580 pages
...Accept_thej)lace the divme~Provldwu!ii hUS founcTTor' you ; the s6ci£iyjo£ybur contemporaries, tKe connection ~of events. Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the ~gemus of their age," betraying £heir"~pcrcepfioiTthat the Eternal was stirring at their heart, working...
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The Puritan Origins of the American Self

Sacvan Bercovitch - 1975 - 264 pages
...thunder into Chatham's voice, and dignity into Washington's port, and America into Adam's eye. . . . Accept the place the divine providence has found for...of your contemporaries, the connection of events, . . . transcendent destiny; and . . . [become] guides, redeemers, and benefactors, obeying the Almighty...
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The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: First Series. Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1979 - 434 pages
...does not deliver. In the attempt his genius deserts him; no muse befriends; no invention, no hope. Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string....found for you; the society of your contemporaries, the connexion of events. Great men have always done so and confided themselves childlike to the genius...
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R.W. Emersons Naturauffassung und ihre philosophischen Ursprünge: eine ...

Thomas Krusche - 1987 - 384 pages
...verweist auf Psalm 115: "Not unto us give glory, but unto thy name." Cf. "Self-Reliance", CW II, p. 28: "Accept the place the divine Providence has found for you; the society of your contemporaries, the connexion of events. Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius...
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Nineteenth-Century Religious Thought in the West: Volume 2

Ninian Smart, John Clayton, Patrick Sherry, Steven T. Katz - 1988 - 372 pages
...participate in the purposes of the Almighty. 'Trust thyself he says at the outset of 'SelfReliance', 'every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the Divine Providence has found for you. . . who would be a man must be a nonconformist. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your...
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New Essays on Rabbit Run

Stanley Trachtenberg - 1993 - 138 pages
...that individual nonconformity can be given direction and purpose because selfreliance is God-reliance: Great men have always done so and confided themselves...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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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...of your contemporaries, the connection of events." Now, when events are taken in disconnection and considered apart from the interactions due to the selecting...
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