 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 - Page 15by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1908 - 303 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pages
...after the world's i opinion ; it is easy in solitude to look after I your own ; bat the great man is he holds, which strangers have held before, and may to-morrow occupy again, has a worthier r Етеггок. ACTIONS— Justice in. It is vain to expect any advantage from our profession of the... | |
 | Ephraim Langdon Frothingham - 1864 - 520 pages
...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." The next change in the manifestations of the mind to be noticed is that which is produced in the highest... | |
 | 1867 - 672 pages
...characteristic examples. ' Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds.' ' The great man is he who, in the midst of the crowd, keeps, with perfect sweetness, the independence of solitude.' ' We grant that human life is mean, but how did we find out that it was mean ? What is the universal... | |
 | James Lee (M.A.) - 1867 - 506 pages
...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. Philip Henry used to say, ' If the worship of God be not in the house, write " Lord, have... | |
 | M. S. Mitchell - 1869 - 416 pages
...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. In passionate passages, no pause is required after the disjunctive; as, "It is not linen... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 pages
...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...If you maintain a dead church, contribute to a dead Bible society, vote with a great party either for the government or against it, spread your table like... | |
 | 1873 - 530 pages
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 | Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends (1853-1940) - 1873 - 860 pages
...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. The worst speak something good ; if all want sense, God takes a text and preacheth patience.... | |
 | E S. P - 1874 - 588 pages
...after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to look after your own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." Actions and Prayers. — He that acts towards men as if God saw him, and prays to God as if men heard... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 pages
...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...If you maintain a dead church, contribute to a dead Bible society, vote with a great party either for the government or against it, spread your table like... | |
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