| Maturin Murray Ballou - 1894 - 604 pages
...wings, and points its course. There U nothing so solitary as a solitary man. — Chapin. The great man is he who, in the midst of the crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness th« independence of solitude. — Emerson. If solitude deprives of the benefit of advice, it also... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1895 - 334 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...objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to }-011, is, that it scatters your force. It loses your time and blurs the impression of your character.... | |
| 1895 - 344 pages
...live after the 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 of solitude. 20. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies... | |
| Charles Benjamin Newcomb - 1897 - 272 pages
...the prisoner is his own stern judge. XIV. MISERABLE OFFENDERS. My peace I give unto you. — Jesus. The objection to conforming to usages that have become...your time and blurs the impression of your character. And of course so much force is withdrawn from your proper life. — Emerson. SUNDAY. We have done those... | |
| 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 - 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
...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... | |
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