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 37by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 303 pagesFull view - About this book
| William Allen White - 1910 - 290 pages
...effective secretary, and the richest of ,the three treasurer. These are our faith, hope, and charity. "To believe your own thought, to believe that what...private heart is true for all men — that is genius," says Emerson, and admonishes us, "Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense;... | |
| Henry Evarts Gordon - 1911 - 332 pages
...climbing back Into his chrysalis. — CP OILMAN Copyright, Small, Maynard and Company 59. SELF-RELIANCE 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... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 148 pages
...they instill is of more value than any thought they may contain. To believe your own thought, to 5 believe that what is true for you in your private...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... | |
| Lillian Gertrude Kimball - 1911 - 318 pages
...in, But to beg or to borrow or to get a man's own, It is the very worst world that ever was known. 8. To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for your private heart is true for all men, — that is genius. 9. To resort to a tax on all bachelors... | |
| 1919 - 496 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... | |
| Rollo Walter Brown, Nathaniel Waring Barnes - 1913 - 396 pages
...ideas than that which this same author gives in the opening lines of his essay on S elf -Reliance : " 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... | |
| Charles Wesley Emerson - 1913 - 138 pages
...wheel ! This hour to Europe's fate shall set the triumph seal. KABL THEODOK KOBNEB. SELF-RELIANCE. 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... | |
| Frederick William Roe, George Roy Elliott - 1913 - 512 pages
...it may. The sentiment they instil is of more value than any thought they may contain. To believe 5 your own thought, to believe that what 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... | |
| Maurice Garland Fulton - 1914 - 556 pages
...soul 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....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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