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
| Virginia Waddy - 1889 - 432 pages
...connection is so slight tltat the colon is placed between the members. The following are examples: "It is easy in the world to live after the world's...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude "; "In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain... | |
| 1908 - 324 pages
...common determination to go down to darkness and death ?" " It is easy in the world," says Emerson, " to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." " No man," says Shelley, " has a right to do an evil thing that good may come Politics are only sound... | |
| Mary Jane Chisholm Foster - 1894 - 252 pages
...older this may illustrate the idea of Mr. Emerson in his essay on " Self Reliance," where he says, " It is easy in the world to live after the world's...perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." The Bible narrative of Sunday was Matt, ii, 1-12. Monday we talked of the star — explained that it guided... | |
| Maturin Murray Ballou - 1894 - 604 pages
...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...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. — Emerson. The man is best served who has no occasion to put the hands of others at the end of his... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1895 - 334 pages
...diet and bleeding. My life should be unique ; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine. I ask primary evidence that you are a man, and refuse...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
...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...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. 20. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies... | |
| Charles Dudley Warner - 1897 - 482 pages
...succumb and give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar, which by-and-by I shall have the manhood to withhold. What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the...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 - 268 pages
...chosen 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...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." ii. 55. 4. Like George Nidiver, Courage, vii, 261. Head the ballad. 6. " If it were possible to live... | |
| Martha B. Mosher - 1898 - 250 pages
...think they know another's duty better than he knows it himself. Our great philosopher has said : " It is easy in the world to live after the world's...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." A man's possessions should be rooted in himself to have real value, then no matter how often he is... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1898 - 144 pages
...because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. JJt is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion...crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitudej 10. The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is, that it scatters... | |
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