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" 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. "
The cruet stand, select pieces of prose and poetry - Page 274
by C. Gough - 1853
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The Monthly magazine

Monthly literary register - 1841 - 1092 pages
...harder, because you will 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...crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. "The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to yon, is, that it scatters...
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Select Essays and Poems

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 pages
...harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's...crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. 10. The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is, that it scatters...
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Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 64

Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1868 - 648 pages
...the world whips you with its displeasure. And therefore a man must know how to estimate a sour face." It is easy in the world to live after the world's...crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. || To apply a verse of Keble's, let the world take him as it may, he will not change his...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 396 pages
...harder, because ypu will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's...crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you, is, that it scatters...
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The Monthly Magazine, Or, British Register

1841 - 640 pages
...harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's...solitude to live after our own ; but the great man is be who, in the midst of the crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. "The...
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The Unitarian Annual Register, for the Year ...

1845 - 488 pages
...appear from 31 Wed. 7 8 4 62 morn. 6 19 meridian to sunset." — Christopher North. The Great Man. " It is easy in the world to live after the world's...crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." — RW Emerson. Have glazed the snow, and clothed the trees with ice, When the slant sun...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 354 pages
...harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's...crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is, that it scatters your...
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Essays, orations and lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's...keeps with perfect •sweetness the independence of solitude. Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule. There is the man...
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Essays, Lectures and Orations

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the 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...
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Papers on Wesleyan matters

860 pages
...the vessel also there — a monument of God's protecting care and man's weakness. TRUE WISDOM. — It is easy in the world to live after the world's...perfect sweetness the independence of his character. THE WESTMINSTER REVIEW, says :• — "Chalmers in Scotland, Arnold in England, and Channing in America,...
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