...teachers of the West taught substantially the philosophy that Emerson voices in the following words: "It is easy in the world to live after the world's...solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he that in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." In the transition...

...my own nature. I do not wish to expiate, but to live. My life is for itself and not for a spectacle. Few and mean as my gifts may be, I actually am, and...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude, Life only avails, not the having lived. The soul becomes. With consistency a great soul has simply...

...virtue. " What I must do," says Emerson, " is all that concerns me ; 40 The Awakening of the Conscience not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous...perfect sweetness, the independence of solitude." Action has no moral value save as it is the development, the completion, and, as it were, the fruition...

...thinkers, Emerson, says : ' What I must do, is all that concerns me, not what the people think. ... It is easy in the world to live after the world's...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.' " Honesty of soul. — Arraign yourselves occasionally before the bar of your own judgment, with your...

...hours to sleep, in laws grave study six, Four spent in prayer, the rest on nature fix." Emerson says: "It is easy in the world to live after the world's...great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." With all his freedom and solitude, however, the country...

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...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." — EMKRSON. " On parent knees, a naked new-born child, Weeping thou sat'st, while all around thec...

...distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder because you will always find those who think 160 they know what is your duty better than you know it....with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. 165 The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your force....

...is attracting our regard. —Furness. One never speaks of himself except at a loss. — Montaigne. It is easy in the world, to live after the world's...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. —Emerson. If you knew the light That your soul casts in my sight, How I look to you For the good...

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