It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. Emerson - Page 15by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1908 - 303 pagesFull view - About this book
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...after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but the great man is he who, in the midst of the crowd, keeps with perfect...objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to yon, is, that it scatters your force. It loses your time, and blurs the impression of your character.... | |
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| 1841 - 640 pages
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| 1842 - 648 pages
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| 1845 - 488 pages
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...tolive after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live afier our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness...If you maintain a dead church, contribute to a dead Bible -society, vote with a great party either for the Government or against it, spread your table... | |
| Alexander Melville Bell - 1849 - 356 pages
...world's opinion ; - it is easy - in solitude - to live - after our own ; - but - the great man - is he - who, - in the midst - of the crowd, - keeps -with...perfect sweetness - the independence - of solitude. The material cause, — the trumpet - sounds - because - 'tis made - of metal. The formal cause, — the... | |
| 430 pages
...after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; hut the great man is he who, in the midst of the crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solituds. THERE are men, who hy long consulting only their own inclination, have forgotten that others... | |
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