 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...  Emerson's Complete Works: Essays. 1st series - Page 55by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883Full view - About this book
 | Anne Judith Penny - 1858 - 304 pages
...the most obscure hiding-places of truth. " This rule," he continues, " equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness." Now I do not think that a woman ought to be indifferent to the opinion others have of her ; it is so... | |
 | Philip Gilbert Hamerton - 1862 - 480 pages
..." Y\7"HAT I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule," says Emerson, " equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life,...whole distinction between greatness and meanness." When art shall be better understood, its followers will have less occasion for the spirit of self-reliance,... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pages
...ACTIONS— Independent. What I must do is all that concerns me, and not what people think. This rule, ight unto mealiness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know ACTIONS. ACTIONS.... | |
 | Ephraim Langdon Frothingham - 1864 - 520 pages
...what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve as the whole distinction between greatness and meanness....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 crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the... | |
 | James Lee (M.A.) - 1867 - 506 pages
...must do is all that concerns me, and not what people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction...they know what is your duty better than you know it yourself. It is easy to live in the world after the world's opinion : it is easy in solitude to live... | |
 | 1873 - 806 pages
...life ; and while we are busily watching at one door, he comes in at another. Сохаштвяск. — 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 a crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence... | |
 | Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends (1853-1940) - 1873 - 860 pages
...£l«ani of light which Hashes i his mind from within, more than lustre of the lirmanieiit of baidsand It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to li\ . alter our own ; but the great man is he who in the midst ot the crowd keeps wit. perfect sweetness... | |
 | E S. P - 1874 - 588 pages
...— "What I must do," says Emerson, "is all that concerns me, and not what people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life,...after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to look after your own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness... | |
 | 1873 - 304 pages
...were at work that were destined sooner or later to turn the current of her fate. <fo be continued.) 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 crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1876 - 768 pages
...QuiNCEY. What I must do is all that concerns me, and not what the people think. This rule, equally as arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve...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 crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence... | |
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