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" It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. "
Twelve essays [comprising Essays, 1st ser.]. - Page 45
by Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849
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The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays. 1st series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 470 pages
...it. It is easy' in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but the great man is he who in the midst...If you maintain a dead church, contribute to a dead Bible-society, vote with a great party either for the government or against it,1 spread your table...
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Maxims of the Wise and Good

Maxims - 1876 - 340 pages
...delightful. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinions ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own. But the great man is he who in the midst...crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of his character. — Emerson. All ceremonies are in themselves very silly things, but yet a man should...
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Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay: With Indexes...

Samuel Austin Allibone - 1876 - 768 pages
...is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after your own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. RW EMERSON. Be not diverted from your duty by any idle reflections the silly world may make upon you,...
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Essays: First series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 300 pages
...it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitnde to live after our own ; but the great man is he who in the midst...crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitnde. The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is, that it 'scatters...
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Not a Day Without a Line: Original and Selected Lines, in Prose and Poetry ...

Mrs. G. H. Taylor - 1877 - 144 pages
...It is easy in solitude to live above the world's opinion. It is easy in solitude to live after your own. But the great man is he who, in the midst of...with perfect sweetness the independence of Solitude. Eraerson. Shallow men believe in luck, strong men in cause and effect. When bad men combine, the good...
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Economy and Waste: A Sermon

John White Chadwick - 1877 - 976 pages
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Aspirations of the World: A Chain of Opals

1878 - 300 pages
...forth, it will abrogate the old law or school in which it stands, before the law of its own mind. . . . The objection to conforming to usages that have become...time, and blurs the impression of your character. But do your own work, and you shall reinforce yourself. — RW Emerson; American. 19th cent. AC FEAR...
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The Journal of speculative philosophy: Ed. by Wm. T. Harris ..., Volume 13

1879 - 460 pages
..." It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but the great man is he who, in the midst...perfect sweetness, the independence of solitude." We have seen how the first physical speculations, the utter reliance on sensation, had been thrust...
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The American Educational Review: A Monthly Review of the Progress ..., Volume 36

1914 - 610 pages
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Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay: With Indexes. Authors, 544 ...

Samuel Austin Allibone - 1880 - 772 pages
...is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after your m ^@ RW EMERSON. Be not diverted from your duty by any idle reflections the silly world may make upon you,...
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