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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 - Page 45
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 371 pages
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Practice Book: Leland Powers School

Leland Todd Powers - 1916 - 172 pages
...or belief this is enshrined, thence poetry will draw its finest impulses. SELF RELIANCE SHAIRP. 1. 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...
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Alpha Xi Delta, Volume 14

1917 - 474 pages
...sees each separate soul, Out of commonplace lives makes His beautiful whole." GAMMA. SELF-RELIANCE ''To believe your own thought, to believe that what...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
...storm, the dawn before the night, to be the best that can be done and then — to be resigned. EMERSON READ the other day some verses written by an eminent...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
...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...
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Century Readings for a Course in American Literature

1919 - 966 pages
...admonition in such lines, let the subject be what it may. The sentiment they instil is of more value than 50 any thought they may contain. To believe your own...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 - 694 pages
...idea of how far "Self-Reliance" is above the everyday level. And we got that with the fourth sentence: "To believe your own thought, to believe that what...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 - 692 pages
...idea of how far "Self-Reliance" is above the everyday level. And we got that with the fourth sentence: "To believe your own thought, to believe that what...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
...every 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...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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Better Speech: A Textbook of Speech Training for Secondary Schools

Charles Henry Woolbert, Andrew Thomas Weaver - 1922 - 426 pages
...having real opinions with a bone up their backs. Says Emerson, "To believe your own thought, to believe what is true for you in your private heart, is true...latent conviction and it shall be the universal sense." We cannot all be geniuses — that would be rather hard on the world — but we can all believe our...
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