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
| Fred Lewis Pattee - 1926 - 1162 pages
...private heart is true for all men,— that is genius. Speak your latent conviction, and it shall 55 he the universal sense; for the inmost in due time becomes...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... | |
| Robert Shafer - 1926 - 1410 pages
...to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, — that is genius. 5 _ 5 _ 5 1 This volume, later called Essays, First Series, was published in 1841. It contains twelve essays:... | |
| Fred Lewis Pattee - 1926 - 1160 pages
...worth, When the state-house is the hearth, Then the perfect State is come, The republican at home. e-tempered Moses, Plato and Milton is that they set 5 at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men,... | |
| Kate Stephens - 1927 - 178 pages
...Tenth Street, New York, NY, United States of America.) PSINTED IN THB UNITED STATES OF AMERICA PROEM 0 Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the...sense; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost. RALPH WALDO EMERSON At the New York Public Library, in the summer of 1925, I chanced upon a catalogue... | |
| George Carpenter Clancy - 1928 - 288 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 - 1979 - 434 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...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 - 1983 - 1196 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... | |
| Garry Davis - 1984 - 416 pages
...Collection of the New York Public Library's Manuscripts and Archives Division.) PROLOGUE "Speak your latest conviction, and it shall be the universal sense; for...rendered back to us by the trumpets of the last judgment — Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles. " Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance"... | |
| Barbara MacKinnon - 1985 - 710 pages
...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...thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of Last Judgment. Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Moses,... | |
| Paul Kuritz - 1988 - 478 pages
...what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men — that is genius. Speak your private latent conviction and it shall be the universal sense; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost. ' ' Every great work of art, every great piece of dramatic theatre, is individually unique yet accepted... | |
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