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 173by Chestine Gowdy - 1901 - 209 pagesFull view - About this book
| Frederick William Roe, George Roy Elliott - 1913 - 530 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 the 25 people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1915 - 200 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 the 20 people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole... | |
| Henry Wyman Holmes, Oscar Charles Gallagher - 1917 - 376 pages
...Lord a new song. (g) Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule. (h) What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. (i) The world in which we live has been variously said and sung by the most ingenious poets and philosophers.... | |
| Swami Paramananda - 1918 - 92 pages
...was to give up what he believed to be true and what was the result of his long and deep reflection. "What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think," he exclaims. "This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 580 pages
...is all that concerns me; not what the think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in illectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between...know what is your duty better than you know it. It is_eaj3y in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own;... | |
| Jesse Lee Bennett - 1925 - 360 pages
...ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions. What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the...harder, because you will always find those who think that they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the... | |
| James Truslow Adams - 1926 - 482 pages
..."There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that imitation is suicide" ; "What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think"; "My life is for itself and not for a spectacle"; "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little... | |
| James Truslow Adams - 1926 - 484 pages
..."There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that imitation is suicide" ; "What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think"; "My life is for itself and not for a spectacle"; "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 398 pages
...actually am, and do not need for my own isurance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary stimony. What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the ;ople think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in tellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction... | |
| Howard Vincent O'Brien - 1928 - 296 pages
...That—personal development and adaptation to environment—is, I think, about the whole story of "education." "What I must do is all that concerns me; not what...people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder,... | |
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