 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 - 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 126 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...latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense ; J for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost, — and our first thought is rendered back to us... | |
 | William Malone Baskervill, James Witt Sewell - 1895 - 358 pages
...Exercise. Of the following illustrative sentences, tell which are compound, and which complex : — 1. Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense ; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost. 2. I no longer wish to meet a good I do not earn, for example,... | |
 | 1896 - 234 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... | |
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