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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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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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Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1908 - 324 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...distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the hardes, ; because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you...
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Character and Conduct: A Book of Helpful Thoughts by Great Writers of Past ...

Constance M. Whishaw - 1908 - 402 pages
...custom and self, the two great elements of the world that lieth in wickedness." CHARLES KINGSLEY. " WHAT I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule ... is harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than...
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Essays and English Traits

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1909 - 496 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. [_ What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in...
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How to Obtain Our Own

Helen Belle True - 1909 - 128 pages
...OWN where we shall find fulness of joy and peace and power and plenty. — Helen B. True SECTION V 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...
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