 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
 | Thomas Cooper - 1850 - 492 pages
...meanness. It is the harder because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty belter than you know it. It is easy in the world to live...perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. THE TRUE POET. — A poet is no rattlebrain, saying what comes uppermost, and, because he says everything,... | |
 | 1850 - 642 pages
...actually do, and to be accused of ills with which they have nothing to do, neither in design nor execution IT is easy in the world to live after the world's...is he, who, in the midst of the crowd, keeps, with a perfect sweetness the independence of his character. A REFLECTION. — It should be remembered that... | |
 | Joseph Foulkes Winks - 1836 - 690 pages
...where, will your never dying, precious, immortal soul be ? — Read Matt. xvi. 26. Newport, IWA MIDLANE. 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 his character.... | |
 | C. Gough - 1853 - 414 pages
...For each obeys his nature's high behest, The close pent thinker and the busy actor. TRUE GREATNESS. IT is easy in the world to live after the world's...keeps, with perfect sweetness, the independence of his character. A MAN without knowledge walks in darkness. THE height of politeness is passing round... | |
 | Elizabeth Nicholson - 1853 - 412 pages
...gathering twilight hour, Closes the outpouring chalice of the morn's expanded flower. HANNAH LLOYD. IT is easy, in the world, to live after the world's...keeps, with perfect sweetness, the independence of his character. EMERSON. IN every species of writing, whether we consider style or sentiment, simplicity... | |
 | 1853 - 442 pages
...gathering twilight hour, Closes the outpouring chalice of the morn's expanded flower. HANNAH LLOYD. IT is easy, in the world, to live after the world's...keeps, with perfect sweetness, the independence of his character. EMERSON. IN every species of writing, whether we consider style or sentiment, simplicity... | |
 | 1857 - 452 pages
...gathering twilight hour, Closes the outpouring chalice of the morn's expanded flower. HANNAH LLOYD. IT is easy, in the world, to live after the world's...But the great man, is he, who in the midst of the «rowd, keeps, with perfect sweetness, the independence of his character. EMERSON. IN every species... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1858 - 610 pages
...It is easy in the world to Uve after the world's opinion; ft 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. TRUE POLITENESS Is a Christian grace. It is obedience to the injunction of the apostle : Be courteous.... | |
 | 1862 - 586 pages
...overlooks his pupils as they write. THE VOICE OP SOLITUDE HEARD IN SOCIETY. — RW Emerson says and truly, "It is easy in the world to live after the world's...perfect sweetness the independence 'of solitude." Greatness is the effect of resolutely carrying out in society, the calm and solemn counsels of meditative... | |
 | Ephraim Langdon Frothingham - 1864 - 520 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...perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." The next change in the manifestations of the mind to be noticed is that which is produced in the highest... | |
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