 | 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... | |
 | Kenneth Sacks - 2003 - 426 pages
...1839: "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." Or so he hoped. If to some he appeared detached and had difficulty committing fully to friends and... | |
 | 156 pages
...than you know it. It is easy 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. How often have we stifled our thoughts and feelings and failed to heed the promptings of our hearts?... | |
 | 2003 - 136 pages
...It 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 the...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. -Emerson 340) Wouldst thou be gathered to Christ's cho93 sen flock?/ Shun the broad way too easily... | |
 | John Gookin - 2002 - 148 pages
...is easy in the world to live after the world's opinions; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. Ralph Waldo Emerson You come to understand yourself through understanding others. History is full of... | |
 | Samuel Beckett - 1976 - 312 pages
...ignorance .. . imitation is suicide." In Cleveland, a girl surprised her classmates by quoting perfectly: "The great man is he who in the midst of the crowd...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." Individualism is, of course, uneasy with the notion of emulation. And Emerson himself was ambivalent.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2004 - 256 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2004 - 396 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. — SELF-RELIANCE Do you aspire to do what concems you rather than what people think you should do?... | |
 | Yossef Schwartz, Volkhard Krech - 2004 - 590 pages
...loneliness. "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". 26 It is this "independence of solitude" that characterizes Emerson's philosophical thinking and that... | |
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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. 
