| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899 - 380 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...people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder,... | |
| 1899 - 606 pages
...but honest and honorable. Remember what that greatest of American ethical thinkers, Emerson, says : ' 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... | |
| Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1901 - 636 pages
...faith that should never fail us." — CARLYLE'S Letters. " What I must do is all that concerns me, and not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous...between greatness and meanness. " It is the harder beeause you will always find those who think they know what your duty is better than you know it. It... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 206 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...testimony. What I must do is all that concerns me, not ^hat the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve 48... | |
| 1901 - 542 pages
...into his work and done his best ; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace." "What I must do is all that concerns me, not what...people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is easy in the... | |
| Israel C. McNeill, Samuel Adams Lynch - 1901 - 398 pages
...equal, than that it should be glittering and unsteady. 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. 155 What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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