 | 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... | |
 | Rollo Walter Brown, Nathaniel Waring Barnes - 1913 - 396 pages
...ideas than that which this same author gives in the opening lines of his essay on S elf -Reliance : " To believe your own thought, to believe that what...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... | |
 | Charles Wesley Emerson - 1913 - 138 pages
...wheel ! This hour to Europe's fate shall set the triumph seal. KABL THEODOK KOBNEB. SELF-RELIANCE. 1. To believe your own thought, to believe that what...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... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | Mary Edwards Calhoun, Emma Leonora MacAlarney - 1915 - 670 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....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... | |
 | John Walter Ross - 1915 - 288 pages
...predicate but only the first word of it. C. Alphonso Smith: Our Language. GENERAL REVIEW Punctuate : 1. To believe your own thought to believe that what is...heart is true for all men that is genius speak your latest conviction and it shall be the universal sense for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost... | |
 | Roy Bennett Pace - 1915 - 680 pages
...in none are they more clearly or more vigorously set forth than in Self-Reliance. What is genius ? " To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your own private heart is true for all men — that is genius." Believing thus, how shall one act? "If you... | |
 | Roy Bennett Pace - 1915 - 316 pages
...none are they more clearly or more vigorously set forth than in Self -Reliance, What is genius ? " To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your own private heart is true for all men — that is genius." Believing thus, how shall one act ? " If... | |
 | George Van Ness Dearborn - 1916 - 250 pages
...dictionary has facts and aplenty, but only man has thoughtful reason. Read Emerson on " Self-Reliance ", — "To believe your own thought, to believe that what...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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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. 
