 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
 | 1899 - 636 pages
...but honest and honorable. Remember what that greatest of American ethical thinkers, Emerson, says : ' What I must do, is all that concerns me, not what the people think. ... It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after... | |
 | Carol J. Singley - 2003 - 316 pages
...brother, when my genius calls me"; "Expect me not to show cause why I seek or why 1 exclude company"; "What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think."49 Emerson's own statements on nature's ontology, as his readers know, provide a counterbalance... | |
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