 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.  Essays - Page 54by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 371 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1871 - 730 pages
...but, alas — " Of all sad words of tongue or pea, The saddest are these : • It might hare been.' " IT is easy in the world to live after the world's...opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; lint the great man is he who in the raidxt of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence... | |
 | 1873 - 806 pages
...life ; and while we are busily watching at one door, he comes in at another. Сохаштвяск. — 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 a crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence... | |
 | Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends (1853-1940) - 1873 - 860 pages
...£l«ani of light which Hashes i his mind from within, more than lustre of the lirmanieiit of baidsand It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to li\ . alter our own ; but the great man is he who in the midst ot the crowd keeps wit. perfect sweetness... | |
 | E S. P - 1874 - 588 pages
...life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder because you will always find those who think they know what is...after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to look after your own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness... | |
 | 1875 - 546 pages
...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...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. FORTITUDE. — When we read we fancy we could be martyrs; when we come to act wo cannot boar a provoking... | |
 | 1873 - 304 pages
...were at work that were destined sooner or later to turn the current of her fate. <fo be continued.) 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... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1876 - 768 pages
...life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is...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 independence... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 300 pages
...life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is...to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitnde to live after our own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect... | |
 | Maxims - 1876 - 340 pages
...the greatest difficulties delightful. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinions ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own. But...crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of his character. — Emerson. All ceremonies are in themselves very silly things, but yet a man should... | |
 | Mrs. G. H. Taylor - 1877 - 144 pages
...of the hill. Phelps. What I must do, is all that concerns me, and not what other people think. You will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in solitude to live above the world's opinion. It is easy in solitude to live after your own. But the... | |
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