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 - Página 45por Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 371 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 350 páginas
...such lines, let the subject be what it may. The ratiment they instil is of more value than any .ought they may contain. To believe your own " thought, to...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... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 356 páginas
...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... | |
| Elizabeth Robins Pennell - 1884 - 382 páginas
...world at large ; and herein consists her greatness. " To believe your own thought," Emerson says, " to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, — that is genius." The " Vindication of the Rights of Women " will always live because it is the work of inspiration,... | |
| Ernest Chesneau - 1885 - 396 páginas
...further." And this fraud has actually held its own. Let us in opposition quote Emerson's grand words: — " To believe that what is true for you in your private...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... | |
| Lucy A. Chittenden - 1884 - 204 páginas
...befall the most wicked than to be deprived of his peace. 12. Believing your own thoughts, believing that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men,— that is genius. Exercise 29.—Transform at least one phrase into a dependent clause. Explain the change and decide... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 402 páginas
...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... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 802 páginas
...may. The sentiment cney instil is of more value than any thought they may contain. To believe your owa thought, to believe that what is true for you in your...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... | |
| Virginia Waddy - 1889 - 428 páginas
...or little sense. 9. Praying is contemplating the facts of life from the highest point of view. 10. To believe your own thought, to believe that what...private heart is true for all men, — that is genius. 11. To tell all that we think is inexpedient. 12. Confessing the truth, I was greatly to blame for... | |
| Virginia Waddy - 1889 - 432 páginas
...or little sense. 9. Praying is contemplating the facts of life from the highest point of view. 10. To believe your own thought, to believe that what...true for you in your private heart is true for all men,—that is genius. 11. To tell all that we think is inexpedient. 12. Confessing the truth, I was... | |
| Theodore Whitefield Hunt - 1890 - 328 páginas
...full with this cardinal merit of personality, taking for its text the well-known affirmation — " To believe your own thought, to believe that what...conviction, and it shall be the universal sense," To the divinity students at Cambridge he says, " It is not instruction, but provocation only that I... | |
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