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 45by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 261 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1926 - 372 pages
...which Emerson described as the essence of greatness: "It is easy," says Emerson, "in the world 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... | |
| Robert Maynard Leonard - 1912 - 788 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... | |
| Alma Blount, Clark Sutherland Northup - 1912 - 354 pages
...trying to outwit Nature, who is sure to be cunninger than they. 29. It is easy in the world 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... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1983 - 1196 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... | |
| Lillian Watson - 1988 - 356 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 your own; but the great man... | |
| David Stouck - 1991 - 260 pages
...to fulfilment and self-respect: 'Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist' (891). Though a man 'will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it/ one must inevitably follow the call of one's convictions, for 'What I must do is all that concerns... | |
| Philip Leroy Culbertson - 1992 - 188 pages
...is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. . . .You will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it." To those who seek change, courage is available within the community of changing men, and through reliance... | |
| 1908 - 432 pages
...the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder because you will always And those who think they know what is your 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... | |
| Anita Haya Patterson - 1997 - 268 pages
...nurturing of precious individuality; that, as Emerson famously puts 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 man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude"... | |
| Helen Granat - 1998 - 182 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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