 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
 | Helen Granat - 1998 - 182 pages
...naturalness and clarity. POPE JOHN XXIII SOLITUDE What I must do is all that concerns me, not what other people think This rule, equally arduous in actual...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. RALPH WALDO EMERSON Loneliness is poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self. MAY SARTON I never... | |
 | 166 pages
...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... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | Martin H. Manser - 2001 - 524 pages
...It 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 the...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. Ralph Waldo Emerson Solitude is essentially the discovery and acceptance of our uniqueness. Lawrence... | |
 | Astrid Fitzgerald - 2001 - 390 pages
...this is the best means of detaching oneself from this ceaseless flow of suggestions. —Paul B run ton It is easy in the world to live after the world's...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Abandoning attachment to the fruits of action, constantly content, independent,... | |
 | Robert Menschel - 2002 - 256 pages
...essay "Self-Reliance." Later in the essay, Emerson came back to the point and broadened the message: "It is easy in the world to live after the world's...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." Generations of American individualists have taken heart from these words. To wartime pacifists, Emerson... | |
 | graf Leo Tolstoy - 2002 - 352 pages
...is hard to do, because you will always find those who think they know your duty better than you do. It is easy in the world to live after the world's...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. -- Emerson 9. All people base their activities on both their own and others' opinions. The main difference... | |
 | Michiko Yusa - 2002 - 516 pages
...awareness. He quotes a line from Emerson that perfectly captures the essence of Rousseau's courage: "It is easy in the world to live after the world's...crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude."64 In his poem entitled "India,"6i Nishida calls out for the Indian people to rise up from... | |
 | Helen Granat - 2003 - 302 pages
...the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder because you will always End those who think they know what is your duty better...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. RALPH WALDO EMERSON Learn to get in touch with the silence within your self and know that everything... | |
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