 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 - Page 45by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 371 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1896 - 234 pages
...some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional. The soul always hears an admonition in such lines, let the subject...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... | |
 | 1896 - 374 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....latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense ;1 for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost, — and our first thought is rendered back to us... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1896 - 292 pages
...had not he preached the adamantine doctrine of selftrust? "To believe your own thought," he says, " to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true of all men, — that is genius." In many ways was Whitman, quite unconsciously to himself, the man... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899 - 380 pages
...some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional. The soul always hears an admonition in such lines, let the subject...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... | |
 | 1899 - 704 pages
...hand, ÊDur tongue ; look like the innocent flower, / ut be the serpent under *t- Л/лгЛ., i. 5. To believe your own thought, to believe that what...true for you in your private heart is true for all men—that is genius. Emerson, To blow is not to play the flute ; you must move the fingers as well.... | |
 | Second Church (Boston, Mass.) - 1900 - 264 pages
...feared to find in him mere Sunday-school morality. I turned to him, and opened on this passage : — " 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1901 - 554 pages
...some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional. The soul always hears an admonition in such lines, let the subject...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... | |
 | Israel C. McNeill, Samuel Adams Lynch - 1901 - 398 pages
...subject be what it may. The sentiment they instill is of more value than any thought they may contain. 5 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 iirst thought is 10 rendered back to us by the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 206 pages
...The sentiment they instil is of more value than any thought they may contain. To believe your ownl thought, to 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 66 pages
...soul 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....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... | |
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