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... The Victory of the Will - Page 41by Victor Charbonnel - 1899 - 331 pagesFull view - About this book
| Monthly literary register - 1841 - 1092 pages
...or the assurance of my fellows, any secondary testimony. " What I must do, is all that concerns me ; not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous...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
...assurance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony. What I must do, is all that concerns me ; not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous...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 [essays] Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...assurance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony. What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous...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
...assurance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony. What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous...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
...realities and creators, but names and customs. INDEPENDENCE. — What I must do, is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous...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 - 588 pages
...thus explains 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,...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... | |
| Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1858 - 610 pages
...marks the boundary between them. Emerson thus explains it: What I mnet do is all that concerns me, and not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous...In actual and In Intellectual life, may serve for tbe whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It Is the harder, because you will always find... | |
| Anne Judith Penny - 1858 - 304 pages
...the most obscure hiding-places of truth. " This rule," he continues, " equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness." Now I do not think that a woman ought to be indifferent to the opinion others have of her ; it is so... | |
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