 | James Truslow Adams - 1926 - 484 pages
..."There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that imitation is suicide" ; "What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think"; "My life is for itself and not for a spectacle"; "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little... | |
 | James Truslow Adams - 1926 - 482 pages
..."There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that imitation is suicide" ; "What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think"; "My life is for itself and not for a spectacle"; "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 398 pages
...actually am, and do not need for my own isurance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary stimony. What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the ;ople think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in tellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction... | |
 | Howard Vincent O'Brien - 1928 - 296 pages
...That—personal development and adaptation to environment—is, I think, about the whole story of "education." "What I must do is all that concerns me; not what...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,... | |
 | Stanley Cavell - 1994 - 214 pages
...performance, of his cogito. In his eighth paragraph he writes: "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." Earlier in the paragraph he had said: "My life is for itself and not for a spectacle. . . . I ask primary... | |
 | David Stouck - 1991 - 260 pages
...is your duty better than you know it/ one must inevitably follow the call of one's convictions, for 'What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think/ even though in a superficial sense 'It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion' (893).... | |
 | Donald Capps - 1993 - 198 pages
...self-recovery is the simple affirmation that I am a self: "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" (SR, 31). Such selfaffirmations may be condemned, as the Christian ascetic tradition has done, as unseemly... | |
 | David Bromwich - 1994 - 284 pages
...should fall, that it might testify of that particular ray. 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. The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your force.... | |
 | 1908 - 432 pages
...dead. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive." — I. Cor. 15:21. Y\,rHAT I MUST DO, is all that concerns me, .not what the...meanness. It is the harder because you will always And those who think they know what is your duty, better than you know it. It is easy in the world to... | |
 | Suzanne R. Kirschner - 1996 - 260 pages
...of your own mind." Correspondingly, he asserted, "Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist ... What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think."64 Today, this creed remains one of the foundations of our culture: Robert Mullah describes... | |
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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. 
