 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
 | Monthly literary register - 1841 - 1092 pages
...because you will always find those who think they know what is your dnty 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 yon, is, that it scatters... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1868 - 648 pages
...world whips you with its displeasure. And therefore a man must know how to estimate a sour face." It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion...crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. || To apply a verse of Keble's, let the world take him as it may, he will not change his... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 396 pages
...because ypu 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... | |
 | 1841 - 640 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...solitude to live after our own ; but the great man is be who, in the midst of the crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. "The... | |
 | 1845 - 488 pages
...appear from 31 Wed. 7 8 4 62 morn. 6 19 meridian to sunset." — Christopher North. The Great Man. " It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion...crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." — RW Emerson. Have glazed the snow, and clothed the trees with ice, When the slant sun... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 354 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 - 1848 - 400 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...keeps with perfect •sweetness the independence of solitude. Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule. There is the man... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 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 ; 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... | |
 | Alexander Melville Bell - 1849 - 356 pages
...to combat - infidelity - and - vice. And - what avails - a weapon - without skill - to wield it ? It is easy - in the world - to live - after the world's...keeps -with perfect sweetness - the independence - of solitude. The material cause, — the trumpet - sounds - because - 'tis made - of metal. The formal... | |
 | 860 pages
...the vessel also there — a monument of God's protecting care and man's weakness. TRUE WISDOM. — It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion...crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of his character. THE WESTMINSTER REVIEW, says :• — "Chalmers in Scotland, Arnold in England, and... | |
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