 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.  An Emerson Calendar - Page 1by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1905 - 117 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Philip Hugh Dalbiac - 1897 - 526 pages
...Young Friend. " The great end of life is not knowledge, but action." HUXLEY. Technical Education. " The great man is he who in the midst of the crowd...perfect sweetness, the independence of solitude." EMERSON. Self-Reliancc. " The great mind knows the power of gentleness, Only tries force because persuasion... | |
 | Katharine Lee Bates - 1897 - 438 pages
...peculiarly my work." From this time on Emerson realized in himself his definition of a great man, " who in the midst of the crowd keeps, with perfect sweetness, the independence of solitude." Among the clamorous reforms and philanthropies of the day, he was often reproached with indifference... | |
 | Kenneth Sacks - 2003 - 426 pages
...is how he understood it in his most famous essay, "Self-Reliance," composed in the summer of 1839: "It is easy in the world to live after the world's...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." Or so he hoped. If to some he appeared detached and had difficulty committing fully to friends and... | |
 | John Gookin - 2002 - 148 pages
...is easy in the world to live after the world's opinions; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. Ralph Waldo Emerson You come to understand yourself through understanding others. History is full of... | |
 | 2003 - 136 pages
...harder because you will always find 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 your own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence... | |
 | Samuel Beckett - 1976 - 312 pages
...ignorance .. . imitation is suicide." In Cleveland, a girl surprised her classmates by quoting perfectly: "The great man is he who in the midst of the crowd...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." Individualism is, of course, uneasy with the notion of emulation. And Emerson himself was ambivalent.... | |
 | 156 pages
...must do what we are motivated to do, not what others think we should do. "It is easy," Emerson says, "to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own." What's difficult is to keep the independence of solitude in the midst of the crowd. The problem with... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2004 - 396 pages
...harder, because you will always find 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...sweetness the independence of solitude. — SELF-RELIANCE Do you aspire to do what concems you rather than what people think you should do? ls this a selfish... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2004 - 256 pages
...harder because you will always find 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...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your force.... | |
 | Yossef Schwartz, Volkhard Krech - 2004 - 590 pages
...self who - in traditional Puritan manner - is existentially alone and evolves out of this loneliness. "It is easy in the world to live after the world's...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude". 26 It is this "independence of solitude" that characterizes Emerson's philosophical thinking and that... | |
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