 | Philip Gilbert Hamerton - 1862 - 480 pages
...preserve it in the highest attainable state of efficiency. CHAPTER VI. WHAT THE PEOPLE THINK. " Y\7"HAT I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule," says Emerson, " equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pages
...Sn<:.Ut. GHEATNESS and MEANNESS- Di.tinotion between. What I must do is all that concerns me, stui not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual Ufe, may serve for the whole distinction between great ness and meanness. It is the harder, bccau-«... | |
 | Ephraim Langdon Frothingham - 1864 - 520 pages
...Whim. I hope it is something better than whim at last ; but we cannot spend the day in explanation. What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the...arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve as the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder because you will always find... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 504 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 the people think. This rule, equally arduous iu actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 350 pages
...a privilege where I have intrinsic right. Few and mean as my gifts may be, I actually am, and do I not need for my own assurance or the assurance of...is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This_nde, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 352 pages
...right. Few and mean as my gifts may be, I actually am, and do \>< L»^:, .-<• v SELF-RELIANCE. 65. not need for my own assurance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony. I What I must do is all that concerns me, not / what the people think. This rule, equally arduous L... | |
 | 1886 - 216 pages
...shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil. — John xvii. 15. What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 408 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. I., t What I must do, is all that concerns me, not what the people think. //This rule, equally , '... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 168 pages
...shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater. August Twenty-fourth. August Twenty-fifth. What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. August Twenty-sixth. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen... | |
 | Philip Gilbert Hamerton - 1895 - 380 pages
...it in the highest attainable state of efficiency. CHAPTER VI. WHAT THE PEOPLE THINK. •' "IT THAT 1 must do is all that concerns me, not » » what the people think. This rule," says Emerson, " equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction... | |
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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. 
