...choices he or she makes but the capacity for choice itself." 18 Emerson sang this hymn in "SelfReliance": "To believe your own thought, to believe that what...true for you in your private heart is true for all men,—that is genius." Yet Whitman was its true bard: "The whole theory of the universe is directed...

...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...

...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...

...people saw was a young woman who was quoted in the financial headlines, spoke frequently at national Mil To believe your own thought, to believe that what...private heart is true for all men — that is genius. — Ralph Waldo Emerson investment conferences, and had been profiled on a special segment of CNBC....

..."geniuses," though they differed from others only in daring to follow their intuition. Emerson wrote: "To believe your own thought, to believe that what...private heart is true for all men — that is genius. . . . Imitation is suicide." Children were superior to adults because they were the ultimate nonconformists;...

...returning words to language, as if making them common to us, ... the fourth sentence of 'Self-Reliance': 'To believe your own thought, to believe that what...private heart is true for all men, — that is genius'" (QO, 1 14). This version of the romantic's genius is "the promise that the private and the social will...

...as the one and indispensable belief necessary to moral and social life."6 Compare this with Emerson: "To believe your own thought, to believe that what...private heart is true for all men — that is genius." Emerson expresses what he calls the ground of his hope that man is one, that we are capable of achieving...

...to concentrate? Do you await "the news conceming the structure of the world"? What does it tell you? To believe your own thought, to believe that what...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...

...Transcendentalist Emerson's (1838/1993) self-reliance, "To believe your own thoughts, to believe that what it is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, that is genius" (p. 19). We have been shaped to be who we are from our accumulated past experiences, by the stream...

...rejects, in "Self-Reliance," as conforming to "the world's opinion," instead of his own imperative. "To believe your own thought, to believe that what...private heart is true for all men — that is genius" (E&L 259). "I celebrate myself," Emersonian Whitman announces, more nonchalantly but no less momentously,...