 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
 | Thomas E. Kepner - 1914 - 348 pages
...Truth which thus came to him would, he thought, come to all men whose Minds are open to the Infinite. "To believe your own thought, to believe that what...private heart, is true for all men, that is genius." The chief merit in any book of genius seemed to him to consist in the fact that Books, Creeds, Dogmas,... | |
 | Mary Edwards Calhoun, Emma Leonora MacAlarney - 1915 - 670 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....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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1915 - 200 pages
...it may. The sentiment they instil is of more value than any thought they may contain. To be- 5 lieve 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 byio the trumpets... | |
 | John Walter Ross - 1915 - 288 pages
...predicate but only the first word of it. C. Alphonso Smith: Our Language. GENERAL REVIEW Punctuate : 1. To believe your own thought to believe that what is...heart is true for all men that is genius speak your latest conviction and it shall be the universal sense for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost... | |
 | Roy Bennett Pace - 1915 - 680 pages
...in none are they more clearly or more vigorously set forth than in Self-Reliance. What is genius ? " To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your own private heart is true for all men — that is genius." Believing thus, how shall one act? "If you... | |
 | Roy Bennett Pace - 1915 - 316 pages
...none are they more clearly or more vigorously set forth than in Self -Reliance, What is genius ? " To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your own private heart is true for all men — that is genius." Believing thus, how shall one act ? " If... | |
 | Leland Todd Powers - 1916 - 172 pages
...or belief this is enshrined, thence poetry will draw its finest impulses. SELF RELIANCE SHAIRP. 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... | |
 | George Van Ness Dearborn - 1916 - 250 pages
...dictionary has facts and aplenty, but only man has thoughtful reason. Read Emerson on " Self-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... | |
 | Victor K. Pryles - 2002 - 204 pages
...from "Self Reliance" by Ralph Waldo Emerson will shed light on the essence of this timeless message: * To believe your own thought, to believe that what...true for you in your private heart is true for all men-that is genius. (How often have you been guilty of saying "I knew that was what should be done,... | |
 | Trish MacGregor, T. J. MacGregor - 2002 - 324 pages
...quest leads you to the grail — a creative life. PART ONE CJun (Jians ana L/reative Jnemes To helieve your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true (or all men — that is genius. — Ralph \\'iildo Emerson ^/istroloqu ana -jour ^irfisfic JDluebrint... | |
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