 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 7by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 46 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles B. Guignon - 1999 - 350 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... | |
 | Diane Ravitch - 2000 - 662 pages
...more than is right. I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways. . . . 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... | |
 | William W. Johnstone - 2000 - 308 pages
...Reg. US Pat. & TM Off. First Printing: May 2000 1098765 Printed in the United States of America What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. — Ralph Waldo Emerson PROROGUE Grief is a white-hot molten anguish that shatters a man's heart, then... | |
 | Paul Kropp - 2007 - 290 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...whole distinction between greatness and meanness. Of course Emerson's essays are no longer taught in schools. They've been replaced by pamphlets with... | |
 | Paul Kropp - 2007 - 290 pages
...and do not need for my own assurance or the assurance of my fellows, any secondary testimony What \ must do is all that concerns me, not what the people...whole distinction between greatness and meanness. Of course Emerson's essays are no longer taught in schools. They've been replaced by pamphlets with... | |
 | Victor K. Pryles - 2002 - 204 pages
...the courage to say so publicly when it counted?) * What I must do is all that concerns me, not what people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual...whole distinction between greatness and meanness. * We pass for what we are. Character teaches above our wills. Men imagine that they communicate their... | |
 | Richard Alan Krieger - 2007 - 344 pages
...duty, and leave the rest to heaven." — Pierre Corneille "Every man's task is his life preserver." — "You will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it." — Emerson "It is better to do your duty, however imperfectly, than to assume the duties of another... | |
 | Paul Custodio Bube, Jeffrey L. Geller - 2002 - 156 pages
...Chancellor represent Emerson's philosophy of self-reliant self containment in which he states: "What 1 must do is all that concerns me. not what the people think" 1Emerson 1511. lf Miss Birdseye's personal mission to those in bondage has long since past, still,... | |
 | Helen Granat - 2003 - 302 pages
...societies may delight the unthinking and the gay, but solitude is the best nurse of wisdom. ANONYMOUS What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people...meanness. It is the harder because you will always End those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to... | |
 | 156 pages
...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...think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but... | |
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