 What I must do, is all that concerns me ; not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those...  English Grammar - Page 181by Chestine Gowdy - 1901 - 209 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 568 pages
...JQ, and do not need for my own assurance or the •sorsnce of my fellows any secondary testimony. • What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the...whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It ]• the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty bettor than... | |
 | 1886 - 216 pages
...shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil. — John xvii. 15. 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 opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 168 pages
...shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater. August Twenty-fourth. August Twenty-fifth. What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. August Twenty-sixth. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1900 - 638 pages
...faith that should never fail us." — CARLYLE'S Letters. " What I must do is all that concerns me, and not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous...you will always find those who think they know what your duty is better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion : it... | |
 | 1896 - 482 pages
...some vigor of wild virtue. For every stoic was a stoic; but in Christendom where is the Christian? What I must do, is all that concerns me, not what the people think. * * * In the September issue of THE STENOGRAPHER I published a suggestion as to the manner in which... | |
 | 1901 - 542 pages
...into his work and done his best ; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace." "What I must do is all that concerns me, not what...people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is easy in the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899 - 380 pages
...actually am, and do not need for my own assurance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony. What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the...people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder,... | |
 | 1899 - 606 pages
...but honest and honorable. Remember what that greatest of American ethical 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 opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1901 - 636 pages
...faith that should never fail us." — CARLYLE'S Letters. " What I must do is all that concerns me, and not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous...between greatness and meanness. " It is the harder beeause you will always find those who think they know what your duty is better than you know it. It... | |
 | Israel C. McNeill, Samuel Adams Lynch - 1901 - 398 pages
...am, and do not need for my own assurance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony. 155 and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole...harder because you will always find those who think 160 they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the... | |
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