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... So this Then is the Essay on Self-reliance - Page 9by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 46 pagesFull view - About this book
| Thomas Cooper - 1850 - 504 pages
...its aversion — it loves not realities and creators, but names and customs. INDEPENDENCE. — What I must do, is all that concerns me, not what the people...think they know what is your 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... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 356 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 people...think they know what is your 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... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 352 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 people...think they know what is your 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... | |
| Thomas Cooper - 1850 - 492 pages
...its aversion — it loves not realities and creators, but names and customs. INDEPENDENCE. — What I must do, is all that concerns me, not what the people...always find those who think they know what is your duty belter than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in... | |
| Thomas Cooper - 1850 - 488 pages
...intellectual life, may serve for •><Hi between greatness and meanness. Tt is the harder because n(i those who think they know what is your duty better than you asy in the world to livu after the world's opinion ; it is easy in after our own ; but tho givat mau... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 354 pages
...the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony. What I must do is all that concerns me, not whai the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual...think they know what is your 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... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1852 - 352 pages
...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. This rule, equally arduous in actual ; I r v. and-in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness.... | |
| Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1858 - 588 pages
...thus explains it: What I must do Is all that concerns me, and not what the people think. This rale, equally arduous In actual and in intellectual life,...distinction between greatness and meanness. It is tbe harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you... | |
| Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1858 - 610 pages
...marks the boundary between them. Emerson thus explains it: What I mnet do is all that concerns me, and not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous...In actual and In Intellectual life, may serve for tbe whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It Is the harder, because you will always find... | |
| Mrs. E. N. Gladding - 1858 - 258 pages
...they, and I will not turn back, though difficulties and disappointments spring up all around me. " What I must do, is all that concerns me, — not what the people think/' says Emerson ; and I send forth my leaves culled, almost at random, from the thick foliage, (not of... | |
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