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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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Treasury of Thought: Forming an Encyclopædia of Quotations from Ancient and ...

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...
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Essays

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....
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The Message of Man: A Book of Ethical Scriptures Gathered from Many Sources ...

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...
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All's Right with the World

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 And of course so much force is withdrawn from your proper life.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...
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Dictionary of Quotations: (English)

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...
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Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Volume 13

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...
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Poems and Essays

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...
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American Literature

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...
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Child Culture in the Home: A Book for Mothers

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...
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Select Essays and Poems

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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