Spring Lake High School - Avanti Yearbook (Spring Lake, MI)

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. . .To believe your own thought, to believe that v hat is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, — that is genius. Speak your conviction, and it shall be the universal sense; for the inmost in due time becomes the out most, and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpers of the Last Judgement. Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato and Milton is that they set at nought books and traditions, and spoke not what men, but what f iey thought.

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Iw A MytlOtJiniv CSoSS 4 1975

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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. Great works of art hove no more affecting les- son for us than this. They teach us to abide by our spontaneous impression with good-humored inflexibility then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side. Else tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another. T '