 | Philip Hugh Dalbiac - 1897 - 526 pages
..." 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 keeps, with perfect sweetness, the independence of solitude." EMERSON. Self-Reliancc. " The great mind knows the power of gentleness, Only tries force because persuasion... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1897 - 482 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. HISTORY CIVIL and natural history, the history of art and of literature, must be explained from individual... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1897 - 268 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." ii. 55. 4. Like George Nidiver, Courage, vii, 261. Head the ballad. 6. " If it were possible to live... | |
 | Katharine Lee Bates - 1897 - 436 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
...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." A man's possessions should be rooted in himself to have real value, then no matter how often he is... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1898 - 144 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 solitudej 10. The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is, that it scatters... | |
 | 1898 - 404 pages
...after the world's opinion; it is easy in 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 state from orthodoxy to spiritual emancipation, almost all of us, certainly the weaker... | |
 | Victor Charbonnel - 1899 - 386 pages
...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." Action has no moral value save as it is the development, the completion, and, as it were, the fruition... | |
 | 1899 - 606 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.' " Honesty of soul. — Arraign yourselves occasionally before the bar of your own judgment, with your... | |
 | 1899 - 136 pages
...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, Life only avails, not the having lived. The soul becomes. With consistency a great soul has simply... | |
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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. 
