 ... 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 our own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence...  Emerson's Complete Works: Essays. 1st series - Page 55by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883Full view - About this book
 | Alice Hubbard - 1911 - 462 pages
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 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 612 pages
...see the electricity part from the cloud and shine from one part of heaven to the other. 7Reform. — The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is, that it scatters your force.' . . . I owe much to these beneficent reformers of all colors and qualities. Each one shows me that... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 614 pages
...electricity part from the cloud and shine from one part of heaven to the other. July 7. Reform. — The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is, that it scatters your force.1 . . . I owe much to these beneficent reformers of all colors and qualities. Each one shows... | |
 | 1923 - 422 pages
...from each. Assign them if you can: If you maintain a dead church, contribute to a dead Bible society, vote with a great party, either for the government...have difficulty to detect the precise man you are. To go a step farther still, their views even on the theory of the obligations of person to person are... | |
 | Frederick William Roe, George Roy Elliott - 1913 - 512 pages
...perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. The objection to conforming to usages that have become 35 dead to you is that it scatters your force. It loses...If you maintain a dead church, contribute to a dead Bible Society, vote with a great party either for the Government or against it, spread your table like... | |
 | Maurice Garland Fulton - 1914 - 568 pages
...man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. The objection to conforming to usages that have become...If you maintain a dead church, contribute to a dead Bible Society, vote with a great party either for the Government or against it, spread your table like... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1915 - 200 pages
...sweetness the independence of solitude. The objection to conforming to usages that have be- 30 come dead to you is that it scatters your force. It loses...If you maintain a dead church, contribute to a dead Bible Society, vote with a great party either for the Government or against it, spread your table like... | |
 | 1952 - 1134 pages
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 | Alice Hubbard - 1918 - 382 pages
...great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude THE objection to conforming to usages that have become...If you maintain a dead church, contribute to a dead Bible Society, vote with a great party either for the Government or against it, spread your table like... | |
 | James Cloyd Bowman - 1918 - 504 pages
...man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. The objection to conforming to usages that have become...you is that it scatters your force. It loses your tune and blurs the impression of your character. If you maintain a dead church, contribute to a dead... | |
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