 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
 | 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... | |
 | David LaRocca - 2003 - 122 pages
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 | 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,... | |
 | David Harris - 2000 - 664 pages
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 | Helen Granat - 2003
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 | 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... | |
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...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... | |
 | 2003 - 136 pages
...The rest are herds; he uses; they are used. He is the Maker; they are the made. -Emerson 339) What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder... | |
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