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" 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 47
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1900
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Essays and English Traits

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...
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American Illustrated Magazine, Volume 68

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;...
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The Old Order Changeth: A View of American Democracy

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;...
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Select Essays and Addresses: Including The American Scholar

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,...
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The American Scholar,: Self-reliance, Compensation,

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....
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Elementary English...

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...
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English Journal, Volume 8

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...
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English Prose: A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion and Practice of ...

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,...
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The Forum, Volume 49

Lorettus Sutton Metcalf, Walter Hines Page, Joseph Mayer Rice, Frederic Taber Cooper, Arthur Hooley, George Henry Payne, Henry Goddard Leach, D. G. Redmond - 1913 - 782 pages
...of one." From this 'tis but a shift of flat to sharp to arrive at Emerson's definition of genius: " To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you is true for all men — that is genius." Perhaps. But that is also the destruction of genius. Napoleon...
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Our Heritage: (a Romance of the Sierras) in Five Books

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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