 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1895 - 334 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...objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to }-011, is, that it scatters your force. It loses your time and blurs the impression of your character.... | |
 | 1895 - 344 pages
...is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after one's own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. 20. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies... | |
 | 1896 - 234 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, spread your table like... | |
 | 1896 - 374 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, spread your table like... | |
 | Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - 1896 - 604 pages
...this way, it ought not to be discussed at all. He would have us each independent; and yet he says, "The great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with ptrfect sweetness the independence of solitude." "Perfect sweetness" never means sourness, bigotry... | |
 | Charles Benjamin Newcomb - 1897 - 272 pages
...the prisoner is his own stern judge. XIV. MISERABLE OFFENDERS. My peace I give unto you. — Jesus. The objection to conforming to usages that have become...your time and blurs the impression of your character. And of course so much force is withdrawn from your proper life. — Emerson. SUNDAY. We have done those... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1897 - 482 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...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. HISTORY CIVIL and natural history, the history of art and of literature, must be explained from individual... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1897 - 268 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...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." ii. 55. 4. Like George Nidiver, Courage, vii, 261. Head the ballad. 6. " If it were possible to live... | |
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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. 
