 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
 | John Morley - 1903 - 696 pages
...VII. CHAPTER III THE OCTAGON IT is easy in the world to live after the -world's opinion ; it L= e*sr in solitude to live after our own ; but the great...with perfect sweetness the Independence of solitude. — EMEKSON. NEAR the end of the eighties, Mr. Gladstone built for himself a fire-proof room at the... | |
 | Thomas Earnshaw Bradley - 1856 - 844 pages
...object of man's existence — the cultivation and development of his higher life. As Emerson says : " It is easy in the world to live after the world's...is easy in solitude to live after our own. But the truly great man is he who, in the midst of the crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence... | |
 | Thomas Hebblewhite - 1904 - 902 pages
...there is simplicity of cause. ' ' "What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think." "It is the harder because you will always find those...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude," ' ' With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his... | |
 | Motilal M. Munshi - 1904 - 502 pages
...one's self and of God. — BRDYERE. Solitude shows us what we should be, Society shows us what we are. It is easy in the world to live after the world's...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. Lovely indeed art thou, 0 Solitude ! And good and bad to thy calm refuge fly : For the deep forest... | |
 | John Morley - 1904 - 694 pages
...i. 53. CHAPTER III BOOK VII. THE OCTAGON IT is easy in the world to live after the world's opiniou ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. — EMEKSON. NEAR the end of the eighties, Mr. Gladstone built for himself a fire-proof room at the... | |
 | Eustace Miles - 1904 - 644 pages
...Essay are worth repeating : " It is easy in the world," he says, " to live after the world's opinion, in solitude to live after our own. but the great man...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." We might add also that the great man is he who in solitude keeps the purity which he would show in... | |
 | William Bittle Wells, Lute Pease - 1905 - 674 pages
...Emerson. » * * I never will believe that our youngest days are our happiest. — George Eliot. * * » What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. — Emerson. * * * Why is it that the bad side of life seems so much more conspicuous than the goodt... | |
 | 1905 - 778 pages
...instead of accepting it in the form of conclusions by selfappointed teachers. FLORENCE EB SHAFFER, BO What I must do, is all that concerns me, not what...crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.—Emerson. And there is a God; a holy will is action, however much the human will rocks to... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1905 - 138 pages
...summer glow, And through the wild-piled snowdrift The warm rose buds below. THE WORLD-SOUL JANUARY THIRD It is easy in the world to live after the world's...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. SELF-RELIANCE If we live truly, we shall see truly. It is as easy for the strong man to be strong,... | |
 | Adele Millicent Smith - 1905 - 182 pages
...gloom which comes from an earth-born fog, and not from the extinction of the sun in the heavens 27. It is easy in the world to live after the world's...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude 28. There roses bloomed, and jasmine, and all "sweet things" the nightingale's voice was ever sounding... | |
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