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Essays - Page 37
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 303 pages
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Select Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 402 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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Essays, Volume 2

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...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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Elements of Composition and Rhetoric: With Copious Exercises in Both ...

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...
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Elements of Composition and Rhetoric: With Copious Exercises in Both ...

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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Studies in Literature and Style

Theodore Whitefield Hunt - 1890 - 328 pages
...full with this cardinal merit of personality, taking for its text the well-known affirmation — " To believe your own thought, to believe that what...conviction, and it shall be the universal sense," To the divinity students at Cambridge he says, " It is not instruction, but provocation only that I...
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The American Scholar: Self-reliance. Compensation

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 126 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 ; J for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost, — and our first thought is rendered back to us...
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Emerson Year Book: Selections for Every Day in the Year from the Essays of ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 168 pages
...a bundle of relations, a knot of roots, whose flower and fruitage is the world. August Seventeenth. To believe your own thought, to believe that what...true for you in your private heart is true for all men,—that is genius. August Eighteenth. August Nineteenth. Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to...
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Essays: First Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1894 - 334 pages
...may. The sentiment they instil is of more value than any thought they may contain. To believe ycur own thought, to believe that what is true for you...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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Literary Interpretations, Or, A Guide to the Teaching and Reading of ...

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...
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Select American Classics: Being Selections from Irving's Sketch Book and ...

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...
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