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
| Anne Judith Penny - 1858 - 304 pages
...the most obscure hiding-places of truth. " This rule," he continues, " equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness." Now I do not think that a woman ought to be indifferent to the opinion others have of her ; it is so... | |
| Philip Gilbert Hamerton - 1862 - 480 pages
...preserve it in the highest attainable state of efficiency. CHAPTER VI. WHAT THE PEOPLE THINK. " Y\7"HAT I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule," says Emerson, " equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction... | |
| Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pages
...Sn<:.Ut. GHEATNESS and MEANNESS- Di.tinotion between. What I must do is all that concerns me, stui not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual Ufe, may serve for the whole distinction between great ness and meanness. It is the harder, bccau-«... | |
| Ephraim Langdon Frothingham - 1864 - 520 pages
...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...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... | |
| James Lee (M.A.) - 1867 - 506 pages
...must do is all that concerns me, and 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 yourself. It is easy to live in the world after the world's opinion : it is easy in solitude to... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 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... | |
| E S. P - 1874 - 588 pages
...Bishop Hall. Your Duty. — "What I must do," says Emerson, "is all that concerns me, and not what 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 look after... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 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 - 1876 - 302 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 - 1876 - 470 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... | |
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