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. Thoughts that Inspire - Page 1751905Full view - About this book
| Monthly literary register - 1841 - 1092 pages
...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,...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. "The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to yon, is, that it scatters your force.... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 pages
...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...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. 10. The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is, that it scatters your force.... | |
| Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1868 - 648 pages
...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...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 road. Or as... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 396 pages
...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...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you, is, that it scatters your force.... | |
| 1841 - 640 pages
...after the world's opinion ; it is easy in 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 objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you, is, that it scatters your force.... | |
| 1845 - 488 pages
...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...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." — RW Emerson. Have glazed the snow, and clothed the trees with ice, When the slant sun of February... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 354 pages
...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...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is, that it scatters your force.... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...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...perfect •sweetness the independence of solitude. Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule. There is the man and his... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...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,...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you, is, that it scatters your force.... | |
| Alexander Melville Bell - 1849 - 356 pages
...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...perfect sweetness - the independence - of solitude. The material cause, — the trumpet - sounds - because - 'tis made - of metal. The formal cause, —... | |
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