 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.  Select Essays and Poems - Page 35by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1898 - 120 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Naoko Saito - 2005 - 238 pages
...responsibility of one's own counter-claim. This may well remind us of the following passage in Emerson: It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion;...crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.15 With Emerson, Dewey presents a middle path by overcoming the dichotomous choice of either... | |
 | M. William Phelps - 2005 - 516 pages
.... . . 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;...crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance (1841) Friday, October 3, 1997, had been a hectic... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2005 - 69 pages
...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;...crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your... | |
 | C. A. Bartzokas - 2005 - 728 pages
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 | Bill Schneider - 2005 - 274 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...crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." "Ben, I think you're an old soul." He kissed her gently on the forehead. "I feel as if I've... | |
 | Harold Kaplan - 336 pages
...beyond his substantial choices and their results. These are the voices which we hear in solitude . . . the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.36 34. "Self-Reliance," Writings, p. 148. Surely this is a philosophy to support the franchise.... | |
 | Sango Mbella - 2005 - 304 pages
...live by the opinion of the world. It is very easy in solitude to be self-centered. But the finished man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. -Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882) Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do... | |
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