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... English Grammar - Page 181by Chestine Gowdy - 1901 - 209 pagesFull view - About this book
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 396 pages
...actually am, and do not need for my own assurance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony. What I must do, is all that concerns me ; not what...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... | |
| Monthly literary register - 1841 - 1092 pages
...am, and do not need for my own assurance or the assurance of my fellows, any secondary testimony. " What I must do, is all that concerns me ; not what...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 - 1849 - 270 pages
...actuallly am, and do not need for my own assurance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony. What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the...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
...Selfreliance is its aversion — it loves not realities and creators, but names and customs. INDEPENDENCE. — What I must do, is all that concerns me, not what...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... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1852 - 352 pages
...actually am, and do not need for my own assurance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony. *What I must do is all that concerns me, not what...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.... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| Philip Gilbert Hamerton - 1862 - 480 pages
...preserve it in the highest attainable state of efficiency. CHAPTER VI. WHAT THE PEOPLE THINK. " Y\7"HAT I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule," says Emerson, " equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction... | |
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