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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 37
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 303 pages
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Essays: First Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 302 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...your private heart is true for all men, — that is genins. Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense ; for the inmost in due time...
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Essays: First Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 300 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...your private heart is true for all men, — that is genins. Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense ; for the inmost in due time...
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Emerson's Complete Works: Essays. 1st series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 352 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...
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Complete Works

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1900 - 356 pages
...The soul always hears an admonition in such lines, let the subject be what it may. The sentiment tney instil is of more value than any thought they may...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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Emerson's Complete Works: Essays. 1st series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 350 pages
...such lines, let the subject be what it may. The ratiment they instil is of more value than any .ought they may contain. To believe your own " thought, to...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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Emerson's complete works [ed. by J.E. Cabot]. Riverside ed, Volume 2

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 356 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...
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Life of Mary Wollstonecraft

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,...
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The English School of Painting

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...
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Elements of English Composition: A Preparation for Rhetoric

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...
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Essays: First Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 408 pages
...him with the she-wolf's teat: Wintered with the hawk and fox, Power and speed be hands and feet. (50) ESSAY II. SELF-RELIANCE. I READ the other day some...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...
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