 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
 | M. William Phelps - 2005 - 516 pages
...everything in this book actually happened. — M. William Phelps March 2005 PARJ1 LADY IN RED CHAPTER. 1 What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. . . . You will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It... | |
 | Theron Q. Dumont - 2005 - 233 pages
...happiness often develop from things that at first were gloomy and unpleasant. THE OPINIONS OF OTHEBS. "What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think." — Emerson, A great many people are over sensitive to the criticism of the world. But the people that... | |
 | Larry Chang - 2006 - 826 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 people think . . . To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest... | |
 | William M. Chace - 2009 - 365 pages
...that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong what is against it. ... What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. And from Henry David Thoreau's Civil Disobedience it had heard this: Let every man make known what... | |
 | Beatrice Josephine Elyé - 2007 - 240 pages
...Savant One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done. - Marie Curie What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have... | |
 | Ephraim Langdon Frothingham, Arthur Lincoln Frothingham - 1864 - 504 pages
...Whim. I hope it is something better than whim at last ; but we cannot spend the day in explanation. What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the...arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve as the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder because you will always find... | |
 | 1914 - 812 pages
...mother says that all little children belong to the Kingdom of Heaven." — The Youth's Evangelist. "What I must do, is all that concerns me, not what...people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder because... | |
 | Ephraim Langdon Frothingham - 1864 - 490 pages
...Whim. I hope it is something better than whim at last ; but we cannot spend the day in explanation. What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in a&ual and in intellectual life, may serve as the whole distinction between greatness and meanness.... | |
 | 1903 - 786 pages
...is all that concerns me, and not what the people think. This rule, equally as arduous in actual as in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after your own... | |
 | 1900 - 700 pages
...may misunderstand him, he cares not, — so much the worse for the reader. He lived by his own text: "What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think." "We cannot spend the day in explanation." It is this characteristic of Emerson that has gained for... | |
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