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
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1910 - 544 pages
...sir, in your modest attempt. Remember this, however, that the greatest reason is always the truest. You will always find those who think they know what is your duty far better than you know it yourself, so go to the Sunday School if they bid you; there 'sa good boy.... | |
| Katherine Jewell Everts - 1911 - 382 pages
...and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried. . . . 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 - 1911 - 196 pages
...only one side of nature — the sweet, without the other side — the bitter. Spiritual Laws. w HAT I must do, is all that concerns me; not what the people...those who think they know what is your duty better Selftrust GreatInde pend The World Spirit than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 148 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...serve for the whole distinction between greatness and 10 meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your... | |
| Robert Maynard Leonard - 1912 - 788 pages
...of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world. . . . 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 Tapper - 1912 - 312 pages
...threescore years of time holds an eternity fearfully and wonderfully hidden. — CABLYLE. EFFICIENCY 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... | |
| Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree - 1913 - 346 pages
...and do not need for my assurance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony. What must I do is all that concerns me, not what the people think....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... | |
| Frederick William Roe, George Roy Elliott - 1913 - 512 pages
...assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony. What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the 25 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 30 the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after... | |
| Maurice Garland Fulton - 1914 - 556 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 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... | |
| 1914 - 640 pages
...right — a selfstarter, with an automatic horn that would wake the dead." — Hospital Topics. 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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