 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
 | 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... | |
 | Jason Merchey - 2004 - 436 pages
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 | Lucas E. Morel - 2004 - 272 pages
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 | 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... | |
 | Rosicrucian - 2004 - 480 pages
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 | 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.... | |
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