...memories of the 1881 Boston suppression of Leaves on largely these same corporeal grounds. 7 For example: "To believe your own thought, to believe that what...true for you in your private heart is true for all men,—that is genius" ("Self-Reliance," LAE 259). 8 Apparently Greeley had a tendency to act this...

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...but more like and not less like other men." This is why Emerson insists, as in "Self-Reliance," that "to believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you is true for all men, — that is genius." Contrary to what many of his critics have believed, self-reliance...

...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...

...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 trumpets...

...leads to what is perhaps Emerson's most telling and widely quoted statement (from "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...