 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
 | 1896 - 234 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 - 1899 - 380 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,... | |
 | 1899 - 820 pages
...No. 224. 7 which is without. The inmost and the outmost cannot be long separated. As Emerson says, "The inmost in due time becomes the outmost, and our...back to us by the trumpets of the last judgment." At length there must be exact correlation between the subjective and objective, between the spirit... | |
 | 1899 - 828 pages
...inoculation of our young people with them. 1 quote again from Emerson in his essay on Self Reliance: "Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato and Milton is that they set at nought books and traditions, and spoke not what men, but... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1901 - 554 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... | |
 | Israel C. McNeill, Samuel Adams Lynch - 1901 - 398 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 inmost in due time becomes the outmost, and our iirst thought is 10 rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgment. The highest merit we... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 206 pages
...believe that what is true for you! • in your private heart is true for all men, — I that is genius. Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense; for the utmost in due time becomes the outmost, and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 66 pages
...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...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,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 478 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... | |
 | Sherwin Cody - 1903 - 476 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... | |
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