 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
 | Jonathan I. Cloud - 2008 - 334 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.188 Troubles separate, and handling them well fosters "the independence of solitude" amid... | |
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...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."10 Emerson now experienced the true hardship of that principle and the peril that lay in... | |
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