 It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.  Thoughts that Inspire - Page 1751905Full view - About this book
 | 1884 - 506 pages
...easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of his character. — Emerson. QUEBEC AND MARITIME PROVINCES. FROM Montreal to Quebec is a journey of... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1881 - 336 pages
...in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but the great man is he who, in the midst of the crowd, keeps the independence of solitude." Emphatic circumflex inflections are also employed in irony, rind in... | |
 | John Nichol - 1882 - 528 pages
...select a few characteristic examples. " Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds." " The great man is he who in the midst of the crowd...perfect sweetness, the independence of solitude." "We grant that human life is mean, but how did we find out that it was mean ?" " What is the universal... | |
 | Alfred Janes - 1882 - 72 pages
...hurl in the face of custom, and trade, and office, the fact which is the upshot of all history, that there is a great responsible Thinker and Actor moving wherever moves a man ; that a true man belongs to no other time or place, but is the centre of things. Where he is, there... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 648 pages
...in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but e sea from the heart of The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is, that it scatters your force.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 352 pages
...in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. - x The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your force.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1900 - 356 pages
...in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your force.... | |
 | Voice, J. E. - 1883 - 212 pages
...in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live alter our own. But the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of his character. — Emerson. Character in individuals. Character is moral order seen through the medium... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 350 pages
...to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but the great_man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your force.... | |
 | Otis Henry Tiffany - 1883 - 954 pages
...hurl in the face of custom, and trade, and office, the fact which is the upshot of all history, that there is a great responsible Thinker and Actor moving wherever moves a man ; that a true man belongs to no other time or place, but is the centre of things. Where he is there... | |
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