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
| 1899 - 136 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, Life only avails, not the having lived. The soul becomes. With consistency a great soul has simply... | |
| 1899 - 606 pages
...thinkers, Emerson, says : ' What I must do, is all that concerns me, not what the people think. ... It is easy in the world to live after the world's...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.' " Honesty of soul. — Arraign yourselves occasionally before the bar of your own judgment, with your... | |
| North Carolina Bar Association - 1920 - 334 pages
...hours to sleep, in laws grave study six, Four spent in prayer, the rest on nature fix." Emerson says: "It is easy in the world to live after the world's...great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." With all his freedom and solitude, however, the country... | |
| Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1900 - 638 pages
...meanness. "It is the harder because you will always find those who think they know what your duty is better than you know it. It is easy in the world to...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... | |
| 1900 - 510 pages
...world to li^e aft-er the world's opinions; it is easy in solitude to live after one's own; but Ihp great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweet ness the independence of solitude." This independence of solitude that Tnoreau speaks of is absolutely... | |
| Israel C. McNeill, Samuel Adams Lynch - 1901 - 398 pages
...distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder because you will always find those who think 160 they know what is your duty better than you know it....with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. 165 The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your force.... | |
| Chestine Gowdy - 1901 - 268 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 one's own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence... | |
| Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1901 - 636 pages
...meanness. " It is the harder beeause you will always find those who think they know what your duty is better than you know it. It is easy in the world to...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... | |
| 1901 - 542 pages
...arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. 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 independence... | |
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