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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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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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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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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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The Contributor: Representing the Young Men's and Young Ladies ..., Volume 5

1884 - 506 pages
...crowd. 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. — Emerson. QUEBEC AND MARITIME PROVINCES. FROM Montreal to Quebec is a journey of...
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A Shorter Course in English Grammar and Composition

William Harvey Wells - 1880 - 208 pages
...7. " No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting." — Lady MW Montague. 8. "The great man is he who, in the midst of the crowd,...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." — Emerson. Point out the nouns in the foregoing sentences. Which are proper ? Which common ? Which...
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Education, Volume 41

1921 - 744 pages
...all that concerns me, not what people think. A man should not appeal by his actions to public favor. The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your force. Suggestion 18. Show that the first assertion of (a) is a dangerous doctrine. Reproduce Emerson's censure...
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Beeton's Complete Orator, Including the Art of Public Speaking and British ...

Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1881 - 336 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 of the crowd, keeps the independence of solitude." Emphatic circumflex inflections are also employed in irony, rind in...
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