What I must do, is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those... Emerson's Complete Works: Essays. 1st series - Page 55by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883Full view - About this book
| Monthly literary register - 1841 - 1092 pages
...testimony. " What I must do, is all that concerns me ; not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for...always find those who think they know what is your dnty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 396 pages
...testimony. What I must do, is all that concerns me ; not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for...whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It_is the harder, because ypu will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...testimony. What I must do, is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for...world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after your own ; but the great man is he who, in the midst of the crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the... | |
| Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...testimony. What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for...duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world tolive after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live afier our own; but the great man is... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...testimony. What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction hetween greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they... | |
| Thomas Cooper - 1850 - 492 pages
...— What I must do, is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for...always find those who think they know what is your duty belter than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in... | |
| Thomas Cooper - 1850 - 488 pages
...intellectual life, may serve for •><Hi between greatness and meanness. Tt is the harder because n(i those who think they know what is your duty better than you asy in the world to livu after the world's opinion ; it is easy in after our own ; but tho givat mau... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1852 - 352 pages
...all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual ; I r v. and-in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction...the harder, because you will always find those who tliink they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the... | |
| Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1858 - 610 pages
...the people think. This rule, equally arduous In actual and In Intellectual life, may serve for tbe whole distinction between greatness and meanness....always find those who think they know what is your duty bettor than yo|> know It It is easy in the world to Uve after the world's opinion; ft Is easy In solitude... | |
| Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1858 - 588 pages
...it: What I must do Is all that concerns me, and not what the people think. This rale, equally arduous In actual and in intellectual life, may serve for...distinction between greatness and meanness. It is tbe harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you... | |
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