 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
 | Kenneth Sacks - 2003 - 426 pages
...is how he understood it in his most famous essay, "Self-Reliance," composed in the summer of 1839: "It is easy in the world to live after the world's...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." Or so he hoped. If to some he appeared detached and had difficulty committing fully to friends and... | |
 | 156 pages
...you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. How often have we stifled our thoughts and feelings and failed to heed the promptings of our hearts?... | |
 | 2003 - 136 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. -Emerson 340) Wouldst thou be gathered to Christ's cho93 sen flock?/ Shun the broad way too easily... | |
 | John Gookin - 2002 - 148 pages
...is easy in the world to live after the world's opinions; 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 You come to understand yourself through understanding others. History is full of... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2004 - 396 pages
...be of a lower strain, so it be genuine and equal, than that it should be glittering and unsteady— What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. — SELF-RELIANCE Do you aspire to do what concems you rather than what people think you should do?... | |
 | Sura College of Competition - 2004 - 116 pages
...must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction...easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great person is one who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.... | |
 | Yossef Schwartz, Volkhard Krech - 2004 - 590 pages
...self who - in traditional Puritan manner - is existentially alone and evolves out of this loneliness. "It is easy in the world to live after the world's...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude". 26 It is this "independence of solitude" that characterizes Emerson's philosophical thinking and that... | |
 | Maida Herman Solomon - 2004 - 146 pages
...Published by Old Heidelberg Press 6020-A Adeline, Oakland, CA 94608 regentpress@mindspring.com ... It is easy in the world to live after the world's...great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps... the independence of solitude. The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is... | |
 | Mary A. Mann - 2004 - 338 pages
...self-knowledge, self- control: These three alone lead life to sovereign power. Ralph Waldo Emerson. It is easy in the world to live after the world's...is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the greatest are those who, in the midst of the crowd keep with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.... | |
 | M. William Phelps - 2005 - 516 pages
...PARJ1 LADY IN RED CHAPTER. 1 What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. . . . You will always find those who think they know what...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance (1841) Friday, October 3, 1997, had been a hectic day for Caroline... | |
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