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
| Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - 1896 - 604 pages
...this way, it ought not to be discussed at all. He would have us each independent; and yet he says, "The great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with ptrfect sweetness the independence of solitude." "Perfect sweetness" never means sourness, bigotry... | |
| Charles Dudley Warner - 1897 - 482 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...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. HISTORY CIVIL and natural history, the history of art and of literature, must be explained from individual... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1897 - 268 pages
...chosen plain food for health ? " What I must do is all that concerns me, not what people think. ... It is easy in the world to live after the world's...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." ii. 55. 4. Like George Nidiver, Courage, vii, 261. Head the ballad. 6. " If it were possible to live... | |
| Philip Hugh Dalbiac - 1897 - 526 pages
...Young Friend. " The great end of life is not knowledge, but action." HUXLEY. Technical Education. " The great man is he who in the midst of the crowd...perfect sweetness, the independence of solitude." EMERSON. Self-Reliancc. " The great mind knows the power of gentleness, Only tries force because persuasion... | |
| Katharine Lee Bates - 1897 - 438 pages
...peculiarly my work." From this time on Emerson realized in himself his definition of a great man, " who in the midst of the crowd keeps, with perfect sweetness, the independence of solitude." Among the clamorous reforms and philanthropies of the day, he was often reproached with indifference... | |
| Martha B. Mosher - 1898 - 250 pages
...think they know another's duty better than he knows it himself. Our great philosopher has said : " It is easy in the world to live after the world's...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." A man's possessions should be rooted in himself to have real value, then no matter how often he is... | |
| 1898 - 404 pages
...teachers of the West taught substantially the philosophy that Emerson voices in the following words: "It is easy in the world to live after the world's...solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he that in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." In the transition... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1898 - 144 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 your duty better than you know it. JJt is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our... | |
| James N. Patrick - 1898 - 238 pages
...to stand for the real, logical subject which follows the verb ; as, It is a duty to love humanity. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion. It is a pity that he has so much learning, or that he has not a great deal more. 2. It is used as an impersonal... | |
| Victor Charbonnel - 1899 - 386 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...perfect sweetness, the independence of solitude." Action has no moral value save as it is the development, the completion, and, as it were, the fruition... | |
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