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" 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. "
Don't-worry Nuggets: Epictetus, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Eliot, Robert ... - Page 26
1899 - 118 pages
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Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 pages
...which are reckoned excellent. I cannot consent to pay for a privilege where I have intrinsic right. Few and mean as my gifts may be, I actually am, and...the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony. 8, From what motives might a boy be liberal without being at heart Ri'nerous ? Is such liberality of...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 396 pages
...which are reckoned excellent. I cannot consent to pay for a privilege where I have intrinsic right. Few and mean as my gifts may be, I actually am, and...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...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 324 pages
...which are reckoned excellent. I cannot consent to pay for a privilege where I have intrinsic right. Few and mean as my gifts may be, I actually am, and do not need fpr my own assurance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary testi, mony. . What t must do, is...
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Essays, orations and lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...which are reckoned excellent. I cannot consent to pay for a privilege where I have intrinsic right. Few and mean as my gifts may be, I actually am, and...the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony. The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you, is that it scatters your force....
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Twelve Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...consent to pay for a privilege where I have intrinsic right. Few and mean as my gifts may be, I actuallly am, and do not need for my own assurance or the assurance...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...
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Essays: First Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 354 pages
...which are reckoned excellent. ] cannot consent to pay for a privilege where I havt intrinsic right. Few and mean as my gifts may be, I actually am, and...testimony. What I must do is all that concerns me, not whai the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for...
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Essays: First Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1852 - 352 pages
...which are reckoned excellent. ] cannot consent to pay for a privilege where I hav& intrinsic right. Few and mean as my gifts may be, I actually am, and...people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual ; I r v. and-in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness....
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The National Magazine: Devoted to Literature, Art, and Religion, Volume 12

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...
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The National Magazine, Volume 12

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...
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Leaves from an Invalid's Journal, and Poems

Mrs. E. N. Gladding - 1858 - 258 pages
...they, and I will not turn back, though difficulties and disappointments spring up all around me. " What I must do, is all that concerns me, — not what the people think/' says Emerson ; and I send forth my leaves culled, almost at random, from the thick foliage, (not of...
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