| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 pages
...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 for my own assurance or 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... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 396 pages
...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 for my own assurance or the assurance...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 Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...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 for my own assurance or 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.... | |
| 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... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 354 pages
...consent to pay for a privilege where I havt intrinsic right. Few and mean as my gifts may be, I actually am, and do not need for my own assurance or the assurance...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... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1852 - 352 pages
...consent to pay for a privilege where I hav& intrinsic right. Few and mean as my gifts may be, I actually am, and do not need for my own assurance or the assurance...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... | |
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