...Study its meaning in detail and then give it in earnest conversational fashion, as if you enjoyed it: 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. Speak your latent conviction and it shall...

...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...

...nobility of the mind which is recording itself. His definition of genius is very true of himself — "To believe your own thought, to believe that what...private heart, is true for all men, that is genius." Therefore he speaks out his own thoughts with a burning eloquence born of his absolute sincerity. This...

...knowledge, as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end! —INTELLECT + 1 o believe your own thought, to believe that what is...private heart, is true for all men, — that is Genius. — SELF-RELIANCE * We cannot describe the natural history of the Soul but we know that it is divine....

...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...

...always hears an admonition in such lines, let the subject be what it may. The sentiment they instill 5 the inmost in due time becomes the outmost, and our first thought is rendered back to us by the 1 This...

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...they were worth, on the deepest convictions of their own hearts, convictions of intrinsic worth. " To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart ia true for all men — that is genius."1 It was the genius of Israel's prophets, and they became prophets...

...mankind. As he expresses it in a passage of "Self- Reliance" already referred to in the introduction, "To believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men — that is genius." Today's reader may have trouble sharing Emerson's faith in the ability of the individual to contain...