 It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.  Essays and Poems of Emerson - Page 155by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 525 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1894 - 596 pages
...exactly modeled after an eastern school, might read the following before they do any more ranting: "The objection to conforming to usages that have become...scatters your force. It loses your time and blurs your character. ' ' Some of the ardent admirers and supporters of the Denver Associate Charities, may... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - 1894 - 604 pages
...us lose, as long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence. — POJK. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after your own ; but the great man is he who, in the midst of the crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the... | |
 | Kansas State Teachers College of Emporia - 1898 - 198 pages
...body is the bow that sends them home. The mind aims, the body fires." — NEWELL DWIGHT HILLIS. "A great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the serenity of solitude. Happy is he who has a sanctuary in his own soul. He who is virtuous is wise;... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1894 - 358 pages
...Gods still sitting on their thrones ; they alone with him alone. "The great man," he elsewhere says, "is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the serenity of solitude." We may all, if we will, secure peace of mind for ourselves. "Men seek retreats,"... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1893 - 506 pages
...on their thrones ; they alone with him alone. " The great man," he elsewhere says, " is 1 Emctetus. he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the serenity of solitude." We may all, if we will, secure peace of mind for ourselves. " Men seek retreats,"... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1895 - 334 pages
...you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it...objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to }-011, is, that it scatters your force. It loses your time and blurs the impression of your character.... | |
 | 1895 - 344 pages
...and yet to follow our own consciences ; to unite social deference and selfdominion. 19. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after one's own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the... | |
 | Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - 1896 - 604 pages
...this way, it ought not to be discussed at all. He would have us each independent; and yet he says, "The great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with ptrfect sweetness the independence of solitude." "Perfect sweetness" never means sourness, bigotry... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1897 - 482 pages
...you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. HISTORY CIVIL and natural history, the history of art and of literature, must be explained from individual... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1897 - 264 pages
...plain food for health ? " What I must do is all that concerns me, not what people think. ... It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion : it...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." ii. 55. 4. Like George Nidiver, Courage, vii, 261. Read the ballad. 6. " If it were possible to live... | |
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