 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1900 - 356 pages
...subject be what it may. The sentiment tney instil is of more value than any thought they may contain. To believe your own thought, to believe that what...rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgment. Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato and Milton... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 356 pages
...subject, be what it may. The sentiment they instil is of more value than any thought they may contain. To believe your own thought, to believe that what...rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgment. Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato and Milton... | |
 | Elizabeth Robins Pennell - 1884 - 382 pages
...world at large ; and herein consists her greatness. " To believe your own thought," Emerson says, " to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, — that is genius." The " Vindication of the Rights of Women " will always live because it is the work of inspiration,... | |
 | Ernest Chesneau - 1885 - 396 pages
...further." And this fraud has actually held its own. Let us in opposition quote Emerson's grand words: — " To believe that what is true for you in your private...conviction, and it shall be the universal sense." And these, nobler still : — " The highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and Milton, is that they... | |
 | Lucy A. Chittenden - 1884 - 204 pages
...befall the most wicked than to be deprived of his peace. 12. Believing your own thoughts, believing that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men,— that is genius. Exercise 29.—Transform at least one phrase into a dependent clause. Explain the change and decide... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 402 pages
...subject be what it may. The sentiment they instil is of more value than any thought they may contain. To believe your own thought, to believe that what...rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgment. Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and Milton... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 802 pages
...may. The sentiment cney instil is of more value than any thought they may contain. To believe your owa thought, to believe that what is true for you in your...rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgment. Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato and Milton... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 408 pages
...subject be what it may. The sentiment they instil is of more value than any thought they may contain. To believe your own thought, to believe that what...conviction and it shall be the universal sense ; for always the inmost becomes the outmost, — and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets... | |
 | Virginia Waddy - 1889 - 428 pages
...or little sense. 9. Praying is contemplating the facts of life from the highest point of view. 10. To believe your own thought, to believe that what...private heart is true for all men, — that is genius. 11. To tell all that we think is inexpedient. 12. Confessing the truth, I was greatly to blame for... | |
 | Virginia Waddy - 1889 - 432 pages
...or little sense. 9. Praying is contemplating the facts of life from the highest point of view. 10. To believe your own thought, to believe that what...true for you in your private heart is true for all men,—that is genius. 11. To tell all that we think is inexpedient. 12. Confessing the truth, I was... | |
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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. 
