...thus taught what is genius: — "To believe your own thought, to believe that which is true for yon in your private heart, is true for all men — that is genius." We believe that the history of certain human opinioas, which have been put-forth as the sincere convictioas...

...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 becomes in due time the outmost, — and our first thought is rendered back to us by the...

...life. In his lecture on self-reliance, he says: * " To believe your own thought—to believe that which is true for you in your private heart is true for...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...

...In his lecture on self-reliance, he says : " To believe your own thought — to believe that which is true for you in your private heart is true for...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...

...bottom until he thought the truth was reached. He believed in his own thoughts, and, as Emerson said, ' To believe your own thought, to believe that what...private heart is true for all men, that is genius.' Then he had a splendid boldness in brushing difficulties aside, following Lord Bacon's aphorism —...

...encouraged through him to think my own thoughts. Such sentences as these have been golden mottos to me: " To believe your own thought; to believe that what...true for you in your private heart is true for all men—that is genius." " He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness,...

...day some verses written by an eminent l1.':..ter which were original and not conventional. The •ys 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...

...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 iu due time becomes the outmost, — and our first thought is rendered back to us by the...

...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...

...some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional.1 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...