 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
 | Mary Edwards Calhoun, Emma Leonora MacAlarney - 1915 - 670 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 - 1915 - 200 pages
...of my fellows any secondary testimony. .• What I must do is all that concerns me ; not what the 20 people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual...think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy 25 in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after... | |
 | Henry Wyman Holmes, Oscar Charles Gallagher - 1917 - 376 pages
...a new song. (g) Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule. (h) What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. (i) The world in which we live has been variously said and sung by the most ingenious poets and philosophers.... | |
 | David Stouck - 1991 - 260 pages
...your duty better than you know it/ one must inevitably follow the call of one's convictions, for 'What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think/ even though in a superficial sense 'It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion' (893).... | |
 | Philip Leroy Culbertson - 1992 - 188 pages
...is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. . . .You will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it." To those who seek change, courage is available within the community of changing men, and through... | |
 | 1908 - 432 pages
...dead. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive." — I. Cor. 15:21. Y\,rHAT I MUST DO, is all that concerns me, .not what the...meanness. It is the harder because you will always And those who think they know what is your duty, better than you know it. It is easy in the world to... | |
 | 1909 - 498 pages
...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 in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after... | |
 | Suzanne R. Kirschner - 1996 - 260 pages
...your own mind." Correspondingly, he asserted, "Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist ... What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think."64 Today, this creed remains one of the foundations of our culture: Robert Mullah describes... | |
 | Helen Granat - 1998 - 182 pages
...naturalness and clarity. POPE JOHN XXIII SOLITUDE What I must do is all that concerns me, not what other 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... | |
 | Laurie E. Rozakis - 1999 - 500 pages
...nature, 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... | |
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