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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. "
Essays: First Series - Page 43
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1894 - 322 pages
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Authority, Liberty and Function in the Light of the War: A Critique of ...

Ramiro de Maeztu - 1916 - 294 pages
...example, Emerson's " Essays," and it, under the heading " Self-Reliance," we find a phrase like this, " Speak your latent conviction and it shall be the universal sense ; for the inmost in due time becomes the utmost," we shall say to ourselves, " There goes the romantic."...
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Alpha Xi Delta, Volume 14

1917 - 474 pages
...separate soul, Out of commonplace lives makes His beautiful whole." GAMMA. SELF-RELIANCE ''To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you...private heart, is true for all men — that is genius." When we get into college, our minds become broadened enough to concede to the conviction that it is...
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Emerson: A Statement of New England Transcendentalism as Expressed in the ...

Henry David Gray - 1917 - 124 pages
..."when it [the Over-Soul] breathes through his intellect, it is genius" (II, 255) ; on the other hand, "to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, — that is genius" (II, 47). By the doctrine of Intuition, as has been noted earlier in this essay, all men may enter...
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An American Bible

Alice Hubbard - 1918 - 382 pages
...may. The sentiment they instil is of more value than any thought they may contain. To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you...private heart is true for all men — that is genius. <I Speak your latent conviction and it shall be the universal sense; for always the inmost becomes...
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A Short History of American Literature

Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1919 - 512 pages
...may. The sentiment they instil is of more value than any thought they may contain. To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you...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...
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Century Readings for a Course in American Literature

1919 - 966 pages
...may. The sentiment they instil is of more value than 50 any thought they may contain. To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you...genius. Speak your latent conviction, and it shall 55 be the universal sense: for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost, and our first thought is...
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English Journal, Volume 8

1919 - 692 pages
..."Self-Reliance" is above the everyday level. And we got that with the fourth sentence: "To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you...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 Journal, Volume 8

1919 - 694 pages
..."Self-Reliance" is above the everyday level. And we got that with the fourth sentence: "To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you...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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Back to the Bible: Or, The New Protestantism

George McCready Price - 1920 - 248 pages
...department of knowledge. In his famous essay on " Self-Reliance," this is how he puts it : " To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you...latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense. ... A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within,...
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The Secret Creator Within: 23 Ways to Awaken Your Creative Genius

Victor K. Pryles - 2002 - 204 pages
...Reliance" by Ralph Waldo Emerson will shed light on the essence of this timeless message: * 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. (How often have you been guilty of saying "I knew that was what should be done,...
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