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What is Emerson saying in the following quotation: “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.”

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Answer: 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. Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost

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Answer: For, there is nothing more important and more essential that the original self.

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