 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. Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost, and our...  Essays [1st ser., ed.] with preface by T. Carlyle - Page 23by Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1853Full view - About this book
 | Jacob Merrill Manning - 1872 - 418 pages
...Speak your 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 trumpets of the last judgment."2 Still another injunction, which Emerson finds in his general doctrine, and which he lays... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1865 - 324 pages
...present condition : " No man ever prayed heartily, without learning something." — Nature, p. 92. " The highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and Milton, is that they set at nought books and traditions, and spoke not what men said but what they thought. A man should learn... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 352 pages
...Speak your 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...highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato and Milton is J^at they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men, but what they thought. A man... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 648 pages
...light which flashes Rome know of rat and lizard? What are ! across his mind from within, more than the ts, makes them enviable to us, 'chafed and irritable...with red faces, and we think we shall be as grand as Olympiads and Consulates to these neighbouring systems of being? Nay, what food or experience or succour... | |
 | William Swinton - 1885 - 624 pages
...reverberates through the earth from side to side. JiAi.ru WALDO EMERSON. 421 Love, and you shall be loved. The highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and...that they set at naught books and traditions, and spake not what men but what they thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light... | |
 | William Swinton - 1885 - 620 pages
...suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side. Love, and you shall be loved. The highest merit. we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and...that they set at naught books and traditions, and spake not what men but what they thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light... | |
 | Ernest Chesneau - 1885 - 396 pages
...Speak your latent 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 spoke not what men, but what they thought." This, in his own line, is Constable's merit, and one which... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1891 - 406 pages
...genius. Speak your latent conviction and it shall be the universal sense ; for always the inmost becomes the outmost, — and our first thought is rendered...books and traditions, and spoke not what men, but what they.thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind... | |
 | Benn Pitman - 1892 - 202 pages
...and our first thought is rendered back to-us' by-the trumpets (of the) Last Judgment. Familiar as-the voice (of the) mind is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato', and Milton is-that-they set at naught books andtraditions, and spoke not what men, but what they-thought. A-man... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 126 pages
...your 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...is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato,2 and Milton3 is, that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men, but what... | |
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