...equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder because you will always...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...

...equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder because you will always...what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man...

...equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always...easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great person is one who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude....

...self-knowledge, self- control: These three alone lead life to sovereign power. Ralph Waldo Emerson. It is easy in the world to live after the world's...is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the greatest are those who, in the midst of the crowd keep with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude....

...individualism. and authority of the soul".52 He rails against the coercive and collective group when he writes "you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it," and "...do not tell me. ..of my obligations to put all poor men in good situations".52 He lashed out...