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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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Authority and Reform: Religious and Educational Discourses in Nineteenth ...

Mark G. Vásquez - 2003 - 424 pages
...must be a nonconformist"; "Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule"; "What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think"; "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds"; "I suppose no man can violate his nature";...
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Happiness Paradox

Ziyad Marar - 2003 - 216 pages
...and the search for basic inner truths that are so fundamental to the modern American self concept. 'What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.''4 Break away from the erosion of our 'self trust', he urges, from consistency, 'the hobgoblin...
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Musings of a Thelemite

Frater Da'Neos - 2003 - 162 pages
...If that indeed happens to be the case, I shouldn't be very much bothered, for as Emerson has said, "What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think."3 By the time I actually have a published copy of this book I will most likely disagree with...
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10 Quotes: Inspire and Motivate

Sura College of Competition - 2004 - 116 pages
...one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded! - Ralph Waldo Emerson What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the...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,...
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Every Move You Make

M. William Phelps - 2005 - 516 pages
...everything in this book actually happened. — M. William Phelps March 2005 PARJ1 LADY IN RED CHAPTER. 1 What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. . . . You will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It...
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The Advanced Course in Personal Magnetism

Theron Q. Dumont - 2005 - 233 pages
...happiness often develop from things that at first were gloomy and unpleasant. THE OPINIONS OF OTHEBS. "What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think." — Emerson, A great many people are over sensitive to the criticism of the world. But the people that...
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Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing

Larry Chang - 2006 - 826 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...is all that concerns me, not what the people think . . . To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest...
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One Hundred Semesters: My Adventures as Student, Professor, and University ...

William M. Chace - 2009 - 365 pages
...that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong what is against it. ... What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. And from Henry David Thoreau's Civil Disobedience it had heard this: Let every man make known what...
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Teen Success!: Ideas to Move Your Mind

Beatrice Josephine Elyé - 2007 - 240 pages
...Savant One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done. - Marie Curie What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have...
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Philosophy as Absolute Science: Founded in the Universal Laws of Being, and ...

Ephraim Langdon Frothingham, Arthur Lincoln Frothingham - 1864 - 504 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...
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