 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. It is the harder, because you will always find those...  Essays: First Series - Page 60by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 396 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Carol J. Singley - 2003 - 316 pages
...brother, when my genius calls me"; "Expect me not to show cause why I seek or why 1 exclude company"; "What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think."49 Emerson's own statements on nature's ontology, as his readers know, provide a counterbalance... | |
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