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" What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. "
Twelve essays [comprising Essays, 1st ser.]. - Page 45
by Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849
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So this Then is the Essay on Self-reliance

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 66 pages
...consent to pay for a privilege where I have intrinsic right. Few and mean as my gifts may be, I actually am, and do not need for my own assurance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony. IWhat 'I must do, is all that concerns me, not what the people think.} This rule, ' equally arduous...
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Every Day with Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 110 pages
...shine. April Ira '"PHE manly part is to do with might and main what you can do. Wealth April AXf HAT I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. Self Reliance April ttorlbf A MAN cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his...
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Essays, Volumes 1-2

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 842 pages
...consent to pay for a privilege where I have intrinsic right. Few and mean as my gifts may be, I actually am, and do not need for my own assurance or the assurance...whole distinction between greatness and meanness. ;Jt is the harder because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than...
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The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays. 1st series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 460 pages
...consent to pay for a privilege where I have intrinsic right. Few and mean as my gifts may be, I actually am, and do not need for my own assurance or the assurance...is all that concerns me, not what the people think. j This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction...
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A Selection from the Best English Essays Illustrative of the History of ...

Sherwin Cody - 1903 - 470 pages
...consent to pay for a privilege where I have intrinsic right. Few and mean as my gifts may be, I actually am, and do not need for my own assurance or the assurance...secondary testimony. What I must do is all that concerns me,<-not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may...
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Truth and Freedom

Thomas Hebblewhite - 1904 - 902 pages
..."There is, at the surface, infinite variety of things; at the center 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 who think they know what is your duty better than...
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The Essay on Self-reliance

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1905 - 70 pages
...consent to pay for a privilege where I have intrinsic right. Few and mean as my gifts may be, I actually am, and do not need for my own assurance or the assurance...What I must do. is all that concerns me, not what the people_ think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole...
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Exercises in Punctuation

Adele Millicent Smith - 1905 - 182 pages
...will pay you well 10. Life is not given to man to enjoy but, so far as may be, to use effectively 11. What I must do is all that concerns me not what the people think 12. Many a man has made millions but has lost his right to be respected 13. One man shapes his life...
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The Emerson Birthday-book ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1906 - 200 pages
...LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS B 1938 L Copyright, 1906, by Dodge Publishing Co. EMERSON BIRTHDAY BOOK I must do is all that concerns me ; not what the people think. gOCIETY never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Its progress is only...
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Select Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1907 - 270 pages
...privilege where I have intrinsic right. Few and mean as my gifts may be, I actually am, and do not need 10 for my own assurance or the assurance of my fellows...intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction 15 between greatness and meanness. It is the harder because you will always find those who think they...
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