 | 1899 - 606 pages
...thinkers, Emerson, says : ' What I must do, is all that concerns me, not what the people think. ... It is easy in the world to live after the world's...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.' " Honesty of soul. — Arraign yourselves occasionally before the bar of your own judgment, with your... | |
 | Victor Charbonnel - 1899 - 386 pages
...harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy, in the world, to live after the world's...perfect sweetness, the independence of solitude." Action has no moral value save as it is the development, the completion, and, as it were, the fruition... | |
 | North Carolina Bar Association - 1920 - 334 pages
...hours to sleep, in laws grave study six, Four spent in prayer, the rest on nature fix." Emerson says: "It is easy in the world to live after the world's...great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." With all his freedom and solitude, however, the country... | |
 | Darrel Abel - 2002 - 538 pages
...The obverse side was his individualism. The first mandate of his Transcendentalism was self-reliance. "The great man is he who in the midst of the crowd...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." The reverse of this was his skepticism about the efficacy of altering material and external circumstances... | |
 | Kenneth Sacks - 2003 - 426 pages
...is how he understood it in his most famous essay, "Self-Reliance," composed in the summer of 1839: "It is easy in the world to live after the world's...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 2003 - 136 pages
...harder because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. 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 crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | 156 pages
...must do what we are motivated to do, not what others think we should do. "It is easy," Emerson says, "to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own." What's difficult is to keep the independence of solitude in the midst of the crowd. The problem with... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2004 - 256 pages
...harder because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your force.... | |
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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. 
