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 - 1909 - 512 pages
...be what it may. The sentiment they instil is of more value than any thought they may contain. /jTo believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men,—that is genius, f Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense; for always... | |
| 1909 - 688 pages
...hope and charity. The Incubation of an Idea "To believe your own thought, to believe that what is trae for you in your private heart, is true for all men — that is genius, " says Emerson and admonishes us " speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal serise;... | |
| William Allen White - 1910 - 290 pages
...effective secretary, and the richest of ,the three treasurer. These are our faith, hope, and charity. "To believe your own thought, to believe that what...private heart is true for all men — that is genius," says Emerson, and admonishes us, "Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense;... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1912 - 314 pages
...always hears an admonition in such lines, let the subject be what it may. ^The sentiment they instill is of more value than any thought they may contain. To believe yours own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 148 pages
...always hears an admonition in such lines, let the subject be what it may. The sentiment they instill is of more value than any thought they may contain. To believe your own thought, to 5 believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, — that is genius.... | |
| Lillian Gertrude Kimball - 1911 - 318 pages
...in, But to beg or to borrow or to get a man's own, It is the very worst world that ever was known. 8. To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for your private heart is true for all men, — that is genius. 9. To resort to a tax on all bachelors... | |
| 1919 - 496 pages
...idea of how far "Self-Reliance" is above the everyday level. And we got that with the fourth sentence: "To believe your own thought, to believe that what...private heart is true for all men — that is genius." "How many times," I asked them, "have you had an idea when a teacher asked a thought-question, but... | |
| Frederick William Roe, George Roy Elliott - 1913 - 512 pages
...Always the soul 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 contain. To believe 5 your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men,... | |
| Thomas E. Kepner - 1914 - 348 pages
...Truth which thus came to him would, he thought, come to all men whose Minds are open to the Infinite. "To believe your own thought, to believe that what...private heart, is true for all men, that is genius." The chief merit in any book of genius seemed to him to consist in the fact that Books, Creeds, Dogmas,... | |
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