 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
 | Orson Ferguson Whitney - 1888 - 544 pages
...HEBER C. KIMBALL, AN APOSTLE; THE FATHER AND FOUNDER OF THE BRITISH MISSION. BY ORSON F. WHITNEY. IT IS easy in the world to live after the world's opinion...crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of his character. — Emerson. PUBLISHED BY THE KIMBALL FAMILY, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. PRINTED AT THE JUVENILE... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 402 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 408 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...live after our own ; but the great man is he who in / I ^ £~ the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect ! f sweetness the independence of solitude, f The... | |
 | Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - 1888 - 584 pages
...December 7th. The essayist took as a' text for her much enjoyed production, Emerson's sentence, " A great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." Cincinnati, Ohio.- Rev.Geo.A. Thayer is giving a series of eight sermons on "The Truths... | |
 | Virginia Waddy - 1889 - 428 pages
...connection is so slight that the colon is placed between the members. The following are examples : "It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion;...crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude"; "In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with... | |
 | Virginia Waddy - 1889 - 432 pages
...connection is so slight tltat the colon is placed between the members. The following are examples: "It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion;...crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude "; "In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - 1889 - 720 pages
...than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great. 222!) Emerson : Miscellanies. Literary Ethics. The great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. 2230 Emerson : Essays. Self-Beliance. We balance one man with his opposite, and the health... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1890 - 514 pages
...on their thrones ; they alone with him alone. " The great man," he elsewhere says, " is 1 Epictetus. he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the serenity of solitude." We may all, if we will, secure peace of mind for ourselves. " Men seek retreats,"... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1891 - 228 pages
...on their thrones ; they alone with him alone. " The great man," he elsewhere says, " is 1 Epictetus. he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the serenity of solitude." We may all, if we will, secure peace of mind for ourselves. " Men seek retreats,"... | |
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