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" 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... "
Essays - Page 44
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 303 pages
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Emerson's Essays on Manners, Self-reliance, Compensation, Nature, Friendship

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1915 - 200 pages
...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...what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy 25 in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ;...
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Composition and Rhetoric

Henry Wyman Holmes, Oscar Charles Gallagher - 1917 - 376 pages
...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....
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Emerson and Vedanta

Swami Paramananda - 1918 - 92 pages
...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...
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Essays and Poems of Emerson

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;...
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The Essential American Tradition: An Anthology of Striking and Significant ...

Jesse Lee Bennett - 1925 - 360 pages
...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 people...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...
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The History of New England ...: New England in the Republic, 1776-1850

James Truslow Adams - 1926 - 484 pages
...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...
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New England in the Republic, 1776-1850

James Truslow Adams - 1926 - 482 pages
...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...
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P. S.

Howard Vincent O'Brien - 1928 - 296 pages
...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 the 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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Light From Many Lamps

Lillian Watson - 1988 - 356 pages
...own thoughts. 169 4. RALPH WALDO EMERSON: My life is for itself and not for a spectacle. . . . What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. 174 5. HIPPOCRATES: I will lead my life and practice my art in uprightness and honor. 180 PART Six...
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Sinclair Ross's As for Me and My House: Five Decades of Criticism

David Stouck - 1991 - 260 pages
...duty better than you know it/ one must inevitably follow the call of one's convictions, for 'What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think/ even though in a superficial sense 'It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion' (893)....
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