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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. "
Twelve Essays - Page 45
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 261 pages
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Zion's Young People: A Magazine of Good Reading for Boys and Girls, Volume 4

1903 - 496 pages
...are so satisfying and the appetite is good. — Vegetarian Magazine. "It is easy in the world to 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 prefect sweetness the...
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A Selection from the Best English Essays Illustrative of the History of ...

Sherwin Cody - 1903 - 508 pages
...rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because...duty better than you know it. 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...
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The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays. 1st series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 478 pages
...rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder because you...duty better than you know it. 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...
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Essays, Volumes 1-2

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 842 pages
...actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. ;Jt is the harder because you will always find those who...better than you know it. • 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...
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The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays. 1st series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 460 pages
...rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder because you...know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easyj in the world to live after the world's opinion ; j \ it is easy in solitude to live after our...
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A Selection from the Best English Essays Illustrative of the History of ...

Sherwin Cody - 1903 - 476 pages
...rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because...they know what is your duty better than you know it. Ht is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our...
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The Lamp [ed. by T.E. Bradley]., Volume 1

Thomas Earnshaw Bradley - 1856 - 844 pages
...cultivation and development of his higher life. As Emerson says : " 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 truly great man is he who, in the midst of the crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 362 pages
...rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder because you...duty better than you know it. 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...
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Truth and Freedom

Thomas Hebblewhite - 1904 - 902 pages
...there is simplicity of cause. ' ' "What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think." "It is the harder because you will always find those...duty better than you know it. 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...
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The Philistine, Volume 20

Harry Persons Taber, Elbert Hubbard - 1904 - 492 pages
...Believe in our Advertisers THE PHILISTINE T is easy in the world to live after the world's opinions; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but the Great Man is who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude RALPH WALDO...
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