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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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American Literature ; an Historical Sketch, 1620-1880

John Nichol - 1882 - 528 pages
...select a few characteristic examples. " Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds." " The great man is he who in the midst of the crowd...perfect sweetness, the independence of solitude." "We grant that human life is mean, but how did we find out that it was mean ?" " What is the universal...
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The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 2

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 556 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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Complete Works

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1900 - 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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Emerson's Complete Works: Essays. 1st series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 350 pages
...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...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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Emerson's Complete Works: Essays. 1st series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 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...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. - x The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your force....
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The voice of wisdom, a treasury of moral truths from the best authors ...

Voice, J. E. - 1883 - 212 pages
...of. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live alter our own. But the great man is he who in the midst...crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of his character. — Emerson. Character in individuals. Character is moral order seen through the medium...
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Emerson's complete works [ed. by J.E. Cabot]. Riverside ed, Volume 2

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 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...of solitude. The objection to conforming to usages thr.t have become dead to you is that it scatters your force. It loses your time and blurs the impression...
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A Hand-book of English and American Literature: Historical and Critical ...

Esther J. Trimble Lippincott - 1884 - 536 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. SYLLABUS. No period was ever marked with such progress as the last fifty years. A nation's literature...
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The Phrenological Journal and Life Illustrated, Volumes 78-79

1884 - 750 pages
...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 the crowd, keeps, with perfect sereneness, the independence of solitude. WE are soul-bound. What though through prison bars We hear...
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Swinton's First [-sixth] Reader, Book 6

William Swinton - 1885 - 620 pages
...sages. 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 only way to have a friend is to be one. You shall not come nearer to a man by getting into his house....
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