 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
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1900 - 638 pages
...you will always find those who think they know what your duty is better than you know it. 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... | |
 | 1900 - 510 pages
...world to li^e aft-er the world's opinions; it is easy in solitude to live after one's own; but Ihp great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweet ness the independence of solitude." This independence of solitude that Tnoreau speaks of is absolutely... | |
 | Darrel Abel - 2002 - 538 pages
...The obverse side was his individualism. The first mandate of his Transcendentalism was self-reliance. "The great man is he who in the midst of the crowd...perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." The reverse of this was his skepticism about the efficacy of altering material and external circumstances... | |
 | Kenneth Sacks - 2003 - 426 pages
...understood it in his most famous essay, "Self-Reliance," composed in the summer of 1839: "It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." Or so he hoped. If to some he appeared detached and had difficulty committing fully to friends and... | |
 | John Gookin - 2002 - 148 pages
...is easy in the world to live after the world's opinions; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. Ralph Waldo Emerson You come to understand yourself through understanding others. History is full of... | |
 | Samuel Beckett - 1976 - 312 pages
...ignorance .. . imitation is suicide." In Cleveland, a girl surprised her classmates by quoting perfectly: "The great man is he who in the midst of the crowd...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." Individualism is, of course, uneasy with the notion of emulation. And Emerson himself was ambivalent.... | |
 | 2003 - 136 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 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 independence... | |
 | 156 pages
...must do what we are motivated to do, not what others think we should do. "It is easy," Emerson says, "to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own." What's difficult is to keep the independence of solitude in the midst of the crowd. The problem with... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2004 - 396 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. — SELF-RELIANCE Do you aspire to do what concems you rather than what people think you should do?... | |
 | Yossef Schwartz, Volkhard Krech - 2004 - 590 pages
...traditional Puritan manner - is existentially alone and evolves out of this loneliness. "It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude". 26 It is this "independence of solitude" that characterizes Emerson's philosophical thinking and that... | |
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