 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 who...  Works - Page 12by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883Full view - About this book
 | Jack Nichols - 1996 - 244 pages
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 | 1908 - 432 pages
...the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder because you will always And those who think they know what is your duty, better...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. — Emerson. FULL NETS TINNIE WHEELER We are all familiar with the story of the " miraculous draught... | |
 | Lois Kerr - 1996 - 260 pages
...With equals it attains equality, and with superiors, superiority. THE HITOPADESA (Hindu scripture) It is easy in the world to live after the world's...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. RALPH WALDO EMERSON Character Haven't you ever read what the Scriptures say? "The stone which the builders... | |
 | Paul Morrison - 1996 - 188 pages
...of subjectivity nurtured in and required by it. For all practical purposes Emerson is a company man: "It is easy in the world to live after the world's...crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude."54 This serene self-possession "in the midst of the crowd" makes complicity with the social... | |
 | James Allen - 199? - 212 pages
...distractions of life, marks off the man of power. " It is easy in the world to live after the world 's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. ' ' Some mystics hold that perfection in dispassion is the source of that power by which miracles (... | |
 | Anita Haya Patterson - 1997 - 268 pages
...public opinion work against the nurturing of precious individuality; that, as Emerson famously puts it, "It is easy in the world to live after the world's...is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude"... | |
 | Helen Granat - 1998 - 182 pages
...naturalness and clarity. POPE JOHN XXIII SOLITUDE What I must do is all that concerns me, not what other people think This rule, equally arduous in actual...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. RALPH WALDO EMERSON Loneliness is poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self. MAY SARTON I never... | |
 | Stefano Scoglio - 1998 - 276 pages
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