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 the inmost in due time becomes the outmost, and our... Twelve Essays - Page 38by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 261 pagesFull view - About this book
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 648 pages
...light which flashes Rome know of rat and lizard? What are ! across his mind from within, more than the ts, makes them enviable to us, 'chafed and irritable...with red faces, and we think we shall be as grand as Olympiads and Consulates to these neighbouring systems of being? Nay, what food or experience or succour... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1900 - 356 pages
...may contain. 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...conviction, and it shall be the universal sense ; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost, and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 352 pages
...may contain. 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...conviction, and it shall be the universal sense; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost, and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 356 pages
...may contain. 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...conviction, and it shall be the universal sense ; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost, and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets... | |
| Ernest Chesneau - 1885 - 396 pages
...opposition quote Emerson's grand words: — " To believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men — that is genius. Speak your...conviction, and it shall be the universal sense." And these, nobler still : — " The highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and Milton, is that they... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 402 pages
...may contain. 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...conviction, and it shall be the universal sense ; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost — and our first thought is rendered back to us by the... | |
| Theodore Whitefield Hunt - 1890 - 304 pages
...affirmation — " 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." To the divinity students at Cambridge he says, " It is not instruction, but provocation only that I... | |
| Benn Pitman - 1892 - 202 pages
...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...outmost — and our first thought is rendered back to-us' by-the trumpets (of the) Last Judgment. Familiar as-the voice (of the) mind is to each, the... | |
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