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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. "
Studies in Literature and Style - Page 250
by Theodore Whitefield Hunt - 1890 - 297 pages
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Emerson, Volume 1

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899 - 380 pages
...subject be what it may. The sentiment they instil is of more value than any thought they may contain. To believe your own thought, to believe that what...latent 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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Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern: English and Foreign ...

1899 - 704 pages
...hand, ÊDur tongue ; look like the innocent flower, / ut be the serpent under *t- Л/лгЛ., i. 5. To believe your own thought, to believe that what...true for you in your private heart is true for all men—that is genius. Emerson, To blow is not to play the flute ; you must move the fingers as well....
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The Second Church in Boston: Commemorative Services Held on the Completion ...

Second Church (Boston, Mass.) - 1900 - 264 pages
...feared to find in him mere Sunday-school morality. I turned to him, and opened on this passage : — " To believe your own thought, to believe that what...latent 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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Introductory Lessons in English Literature: For High Schools and Academies

Israel C. McNeill, Samuel Adams Lynch - 1901 - 398 pages
...subject be what it may. The sentiment they instill is of more value than any thought they may contain. 5 To believe your own thought, to believe that what...latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense ; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost, and our iirst thought is 10 rendered back to us by...
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Essays. 1901

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1901 - 554 pages
...subject be what it may. The sentiment they instil is of more value than any thought they may contain. To believe your own thought, to believe that what...latent 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...
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History, Self-reliance, Nature, Spiritual Laws, The American Scholar

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 206 pages
...The sentiment they instil is of more value than any thought they may contain. To believe your ownl thought, to believe that what is true for you! • in your private heart is true for all men, — I that is genius. Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense; for the utmost...
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So this Then is the Essay on Self-reliance

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 66 pages
...subject be what it may. The sentiment they instill is of more value than any thought they may contain. To believe your own thought, to believe that what...your private heart, is true for all men, — that is genius.-Speak your latent conviction and it shall be the universal sense ; for always the inmost becomes...
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Composition-literature

Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denney - 1902 - 408 pages
...experience, my observations, my heart and soul into my work." " To believe your own thought," says Emerson, " to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men — that is genius." And Emerson goes on to point out the value of this belief in one's own thought in a passage that every...
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A Selection from the Best English Essays Illustrative of the History of ...

Sherwin Cody - 1903 - 508 pages
...subject be what it may. The sentiment they instil is of more value than any thought they may contain. To believe your own thought, to believe that what...latent 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...
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The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays. 1st series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 478 pages
...subject be what it may. The sentiment they instil is of more value than any thought they may contain. To believe your own thought, to believe that what...latent 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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