 | Anne Judith Penny - 1858 - 304 pages
...the most obscure hiding-places of truth. " This rule," he continues, " equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness." Now I do not think that a woman ought to be indifferent to the opinion others have of her ; it is so... | |
 | Philip Gilbert Hamerton - 1862 - 480 pages
...preserve it in the highest attainable state of efficiency. CHAPTER VI. WHAT THE PEOPLE THINK. " Y\7"HAT I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule," says Emerson, " equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pages
...Sn<:.Ut. GHEATNESS and MEANNESS- Di.tinotion between. What I must do is all that concerns me, stui not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual Ufe, may serve for the whole distinction between great ness and meanness. It is the harder, bccau-«... | |
 | Ephraim Langdon Frothingham - 1864 - 520 pages
...Whim. I hope it is something better than whim at last ; but we cannot spend the day in explanation. What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the...arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve as the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder because you will always find... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 504 pages
...which are reckoned excellent. I cannot consent to pay for a privilege where I have intrinsic right. Few and mean as my gifts may be, I actually am, and...what the people think. This rule, equally arduous iu actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 352 pages
...right. Few and mean as my gifts may be, I actually am, and do \>< L»^:, .-<• v SELF-RELIANCE. 65. not need for my own assurance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony. I What I must do is all that concerns me, not / what the people think. This rule, equally arduous L... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 350 pages
...which are reckoned excellent. I cannot consent to pay for a privilege where I have intrinsic right. Few and mean as my gifts may be, I actually am, and do I not need for my own assurance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony. What I must... | |
 | 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 - 1888 - 408 pages
...which are reckoned excellent. I cannot consent to pay for a privilege where I have intrinsic right. Few and mean as my gifts may be, I actually am, and...the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony. I., t What I must do, is all that concerns me, not what the people think. //This rule, equally , '... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 802 pages
...which are reckoned excellent. I cannot consent to pay for a privilege where I have intrinsic right. Few and mean as my gifts may be, I actually am, and dp not need for my own assurance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony. What I must... | |
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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. 
