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" 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. "
Twelve Essays - Page 45
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 261 pages
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The Monthly magazine

Monthly literary register - 1841 - 1092 pages
...rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because...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...
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Select Essays and Poems

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 pages
...rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because...duty better than you know it. 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...
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The Monthly Magazine, Or, British Register

1841 - 640 pages
...rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because...duty better than you know it. 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...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 324 pages
...rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because...duty better than you know it. 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...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 396 pages
...life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It_is the harder, because ypu will always find those who think they know what is...duty better than you know it. 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...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 354 pages
...rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because...duty better than you know it. 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...
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Essays, Lectures and Orations

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because...duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after your own ; but the great man...
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Essays, orations and lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because...duty better than you know it. 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...
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Twelve essays [comprising Essays, 1st ser.].

Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because...the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live afier our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the...
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Eliza Cook's journal, Volume 2

430 pages
...might suhscrihe it, without deviating from the strictest veracity. IT is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; hut the great man is he who, in the midst of the crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence...
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