 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
 | 1886 - 216 pages
...take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil. — John xvii. 15. 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 our... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 402 pages
...anil 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 - 1893 - 126 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 - 1893 - 168 pages
...to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater. August Twenty-fourth. August Twenty-fifth. What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. August Twenty-sixth. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1894 - 334 pages
...am, and do not need for my own assurance or the assuiance of my fellows any secondary testimony. What I must do, is all that concerns me, not what the people...always find those who think they know what is your duly better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy... | |
 | Philip Gilbert Hamerton - 1895 - 380 pages
...it in the highest attainable state of efficiency. CHAPTER VI. WHAT THE PEOPLE THINK. •' "IT THAT 1 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... | |
 | 1896 - 234 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... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1897 - 482 pages
...give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar, which by-and-by I shall have the manhood to withhold. 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... | |
 | 1899 - 136 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... | |
 | Victor Charbonnel - 1899 - 386 pages
...virtue. " What I must do," says Emerson, " is all that concerns me ; 40 The Awakening of the Conscience not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous...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... | |
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