 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
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...is man's most glorious task. SOPHOCLES They're only truly great who are truly good. GEORGE CHAPMAN It is easy in the world to live after the world's...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. RALPH WALDO EMERSON Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and, departing,... | |
 | Laurie E. Rozakis - 1999 - 500 pages
...nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried... "What I must do is all that concerns me, not what...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." "Self-Reliance" shows Emerson looking inward, but many of his poems and essays also look outward to... | |
 | Linda C. Cahir - 1999 - 184 pages
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 | Nigel Blake - 2000 - 239 pages
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 | Irene Taviss Thomson - 2000 - 172 pages
...nonconformity. "Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist," says Emerson ([1841] 1941: 123). He continues: "It is easy in the world to live after the world's...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude" (125). It is precisely this kind of independence that de Tocqueville finds lacking among Americans,... | |
 | Ronald A. Davis - 2000 - 110 pages
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 | Joan Anderson - 2000 - 212 pages
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 | Grover Starling - 2002 - 654 pages
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