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
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| Mark G. Vásquez - 2003 - 424 pages
...a nonconformist"; "Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule"; "What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think"; "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds"; "I suppose no man can violate his nature";... | |
| Lawrence Buell - 2004 - 420 pages
...proper to conduct oneself is explained in terms of how it is best for a human being to be."'s "What I must do, is all that concerns me, not what the people think" (W 2: 31). Underneath (or above) venial distractions and self-divisions is the assumption of a core... | |
| Ripley S. Hugo - 2003 - 328 pages
...the inkwell—some quotation or idea he had scribbled down." The quotation is from Emerson: " 'What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.' Emerson, of course. Emerson had said so many things he had taken unto himself." Mark continues to think... | |
| Keith J. Thomas - 2003 - 312 pages
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| Frater Da'Neos - 2003 - 162 pages
...that indeed happens to be the case, I shouldn't be very much bothered, for as Emerson has said, "What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think."3 By the time I actually have a published copy of this book I will most likely disagree with... | |
| Ziyad Marar - 2003 - 216 pages
...the search for basic inner truths that are so fundamental to the modern American self concept. 'What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.''4 Break away from the erosion of our 'self trust', he urges, from consistency, 'the hobgoblin... | |
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