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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. "
Emerson's Complete Works: Essays. 1st series - Page 55
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883
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Elements of Composition and Rhetoric: With Copious Exercises in Both ...

Virginia Waddy - 1889 - 432 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 "; "In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain...
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The Pleasures of Life ...

Sir John Lubbock - 1890 - 514 pages
...on their thrones ; they alone with him alone. " The great man," he elsewhere says, " is 1 Epictetus. he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the serenity of solitude." We may all, if we will, secure peace of mind for ourselves. " Men seek retreats,"...
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“The” Pleasures of Life

Sir John Lubbock - 1891 - 228 pages
...on their thrones ; they alone with him alone. " The great man," he elsewhere says, " is 1 Epictetus. he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the serenity of solitude." We may all, if we will, secure peace of mind for ourselves. " Men seek retreats,"...
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With Friend and Book: In the Study and the Fields

John Rogers Rees - 1892 - 192 pages
...hy looking into them, he is immediately in perfect tranquility." — MARCUS AURELIUS. "The great man is he who, in the midst of the crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." — EMERSON. t " So happily am I situated, that I enjoy all the charms of rural seclusion, yet retain...
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Liberty Review: A Magazine of Politics, Economics, and Sociology..., Volume 24

1908 - 324 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." " No man," says Shelley, " has a right to do an evil thing that good may come Politics are only sound...
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Denver Medical Times: Utah Medical Journal. Nevada Medicine, Volume 14

1894 - 596 pages
...exactly modeled after an eastern school, might read the following before they do any more ranting: "The objection to conforming to usages that have become...scatters your force. It loses your time and blurs your character. ' ' Some of the ardent admirers and supporters of the Denver Associate Charities, may...
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The Kindergarten of the Church

Mary Jane Chisholm Foster - 1894 - 252 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 Bible narrative of Sunday was Matt, ii, 1-12. Monday we talked of the star — explained that it guided...
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State Normal Monthly, Volume 11

Kansas State Teachers College of Emporia - 1898 - 198 pages
...the bow that sends them home. The mind aims, the body fires." — NEWELL DWIGHT HILLIS. "A great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the serenity of solitude. Happy is he who has a sanctuary in his own soul. He who is virtuous is wise;...
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The Pleasures of Life Complete

Sir John Lubbock - 1894 - 358 pages
...Gods still sitting on their thrones ; they alone with him alone. "The great man," he elsewhere says, "is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the serenity of solitude." We may all, if we will, secure peace of mind for ourselves. "Men seek retreats,"...
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The Pleasures of Life

Sir John Lubbock - 1893 - 506 pages
...on their thrones ; they alone with him alone. " The great man," he elsewhere says, " is 1 Emctetus. he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the serenity of solitude." We may all, if we will, secure peace of mind for ourselves. " Men seek retreats,"...
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