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. Complete Works - Page 47by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1900Full view - About this book
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 302 pages
...The soul always hears an admonition in such lines, let the subject be what it may. The sentiment they instil is of more value than any thought they may...your private heart is true for all men, — that is genins. Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense ; for the inmost in due time... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 300 pages
...The soul always hears an admonition in such lines, let the subject be what it may. The sentiment they instil is of more value than any thought they may...your private heart is true for all men, — that is genins. Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense ; for the inmost in due time... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 648 pages
...The sentiment kept their counsel beside him, and there is no record of any word or sign that has they " without abolishing our arms, magazines, commissaries, and carriages, until, passed from one to the other. What con- thought, to believe that what is true for you nection do the... | |
| Elizabeth Robins Pennell - 1884 - 382 pages
...world at large ; and herein consists her greatness. " To believe your own thought," Emerson says, " to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, — that is genius." The " Vindication of the Rights of Women " will always live because it is the work of inspiration,... | |
| Ernest Chesneau - 1885 - 396 pages
...further." And this fraud has actually held its own. Let us in opposition quote Emerson's grand words: — " To believe that what is true for you in your private...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... | |
| Lucy A. Chittenden - 1884 - 204 pages
...befall the most wicked than to be deprived of his peace. 12. Believing your own thoughts, believing that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men,— that is genius. Exercise 29.—Transform at least one phrase into a dependent clause. Explain the change and decide... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 802 pages
...The soul always hears an admonition in such lines, let the subject be what it may. The sentiment cney instil is of more value than any thought they may contain. To believe your owa thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, — that... | |
| Virginia Waddy - 1889 - 428 pages
...or little sense. 9. Praying is contemplating the facts of life from the highest point of view. 10. To believe your own thought, to believe that what...private heart is true for all men, — that is genius. 11. To tell all that we think is inexpedient. 12. Confessing the truth, I was greatly to blame for... | |
| Virginia Waddy - 1889 - 432 pages
...or little sense. 9. Praying is contemplating the facts of life from the highest point of view. 10. To believe your own thought, to believe that what...true for you in your private heart is true for all men,—that is genius. 11. To tell all that we think is inexpedient. 12. Confessing the truth, I was... | |
| Theodore Whitefield Hunt - 1890 - 328 pages
...full with this cardinal merit of personality, taking for its text the well-known affirmation — " To believe your own thought, to believe that what...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... | |
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