 | 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... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1900 - 638 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 sweetness the independence of solitude." — EMKRSON. " On parent knees, a naked new-born child, Weeping thou sat'st, while all around thec... | |
 | 1900 - 510 pages
...li^e aft-er the world's opinions; it is easy in solitude to live after one's own; but Ihp great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweet ness the independence of solitude." This independence of solitude that Tnoreau speaks of is absolutely... | |
 | Chestine Gowdy - 1901 - 268 pages
...to 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. — EMERSON. Well, but, you will answer, you cannot feel interested in architecture : you do not care... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1901 - 636 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 sweetness the independence of solitude." — EMERSON. "On parent knees, a naked new-born child. Weeping thou sat'st, while all around thee smiled:... | |
 | 1901 - 542 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 sweetness the independence of solitude." These thoughts of a master mind will indicate what the end will be like. I am not prepared to say to-night... | |
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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. 
