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... Essays - Page 41by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 333 pagesFull view - About this book
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 504 pages
...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...the mind is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and Milton is, that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men but... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 470 pages
...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...the mind is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato and Milton is that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men, but... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 352 pages
...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...the mind is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato and Milton is J^at they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men, but... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1900 - 356 pages
...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...the mind is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato and Milton is that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men, but... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 648 pages
...light which flashes Rome know of rat and lizard? What are ! across his mind from within, more than the ts, makes them enviable to us, 'chafed and irritable...with red faces, and we think we shall be as grand as Olympiads and Consulates to these neighbouring systems of being? Nay, what food or experience or succour... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 356 pages
...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...the mind is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato and Milton is that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men, but... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 402 pages
...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...the mind is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and Milton is, that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men but... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 126 pages
...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, —...the mind is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato,2 and Milton3 is, that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1894 - 334 pages
...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 always the inmost becomes the outmost, — and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets... | |
| 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...; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost. 2. I no longer wish to meet a good I do not earn, for example, to find a pot of buried gold. 3. Your... | |
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