 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 648 pages
...to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but the great man heart of Bible society, vote with a great party either for the government or against it, spread your table like... | |
 | Voice, J. E. - 1883 - 212 pages
...to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live alter our own. But the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of his character. — Emerson. Character in individuals. Character is moral order seen through the medium... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 356 pages
...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...of solitude. The objection to conforming to usages thr.t have become dead to you is that it scatters your force. It loses your time and blurs the impression... | |
 | Esther J. Trimble Lippincott - 1884 - 536 pages
...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. SYLLABUS. No period was ever marked with such progress as the last fifty years. A nation's literature... | |
 | 1884 - 750 pages
...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 sereneness, the independence of solitude. WE are soul-bound. What though through prison bars We hear... | |
 | William Swinton - 1885 - 620 pages
...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. The only way to have a friend is to be one. You shall not come nearer to a man by getting into his house.... | |
 | William Swinton - 1885 - 624 pages
...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. The only way to have a friend is to be one. You shall not come nearer to a man by getting into his house.... | |
 | 1887 - 460 pages
...many of losing all self-reliance in matters of study. The great student no less than the great man is "he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." Discussion from day to day with one's fellowstudents of the subjects under consideration is broadening... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1887 - 222 pages
...exciting things happened,' be assured that you are in a good way."1 " The great man," says Emerson, " is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the serenity of solitude." And he closes his Conduct of Life with a striking allegory. The young mortal... | |
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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. 
