Self Relience
Trust ThySelf:
· 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
· Your genuine action will explain itself, and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing
· A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
· Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through......
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