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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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Papers on Wesleyan matters

860 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...crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of his character. THE WESTMINSTER REVIEW, says :• — "Chalmers in Scotland, Arnold in England, and...
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Eliza Cook's journal, Volume 2

430 pages
...in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; hut the great man is he who, in the midst of the crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solituds. THERE are men, who hy long consulting only their own inclination, have forgotten that others...
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Essays, First Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 356 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...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 352 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...
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Cooper's Journal: Or, Unfettered Thinker and Plain Speaker for Truth ...

Thomas Cooper - 1850 - 492 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...perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. THE TRUE POET. — A poet is no rattlebrain, saying what comes uppermost, and, because he says everything,...
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Cooper's Journal: Or, Unfettered Thinker and Plain Speaker for Truth ...

Thomas Cooper - 1850 - 504 pages
...world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but the groat man is he who, in the midst of the crowd, keeps with...perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. THE TRUE POET. — A poet is no rattlebrain, saying what comes uppermost, and, because he says everything,...
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The Soul's welfare, Volumes 1-3

1850 - 642 pages
...execution 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 a perfect sweetness the independence of his character. A REFLECTION. — It should be remembered that...
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The Baptist children's magazine (ed. by J.F. Winks).

Joseph Foulkes Winks - 1836 - 690 pages
...the world, to live after the world's opinion. It is easy in solitude to live after our own. But the man is he who, in the midst of the crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of his character. 32 WE SHALL MEET AGAIN. * * * IF you will go with me now to a glen in the highlands,...
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The Wheat-sheaf, a Suggestive Reader: Containing Germs of Pure and Noble ...

Elizabeth Nicholson - 1853 - 412 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...keeps, with perfect sweetness, the independence of his character. EMERSON. IN every species of writing, whether we consider style or sentiment, simplicity...
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The cruet stand, select pieces of prose and poetry, Volume 2

C. Gough - 1853 - 414 pages
...GREATNESS. 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...keeps, with perfect sweetness, the independence of his character. A MAN without knowledge walks in darkness. THE height of politeness is passing round...
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