 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
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1900 - 638 pages
...CARLYLE'S Letters. " What I must do is all that concerns me, and not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life,...you will always find those who think they know what your duty is better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion : it... | |
 | Israel C. McNeill, Samuel Adams Lynch - 1901 - 398 pages
...secondary testimony. 155 What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life,...harder because you will always find those who think 160 they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1901 - 636 pages
...CARLYLE'S Letters. " What I must do is all that concerns me, and not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life,...between greatness and meanness. " It is the harder beeause you will always find those who think they know what your duty is better than you know it. It... | |
 | 1901 - 542 pages
...arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. 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 independence... | |
 | Lewis George Janes - 1901 - 200 pages
...tri-une relics of barbarism. Not in this way can the health and perpetuity of nations be assured. " It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after one's own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 206 pages
...^hat the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve 48 for the whole distinction between greatness^ and meanness. It is the harder because you I will always find those who think they know | ,what is your duty better than you know it, I , (It... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 66 pages
...secondary testimony. IWhat 'I must do, is all that concerns me, not what the people think.} This rule, ' equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life,...think they know what is your duty better than you know it.f It is easy in fe world to live after the world's opinion^ [91 it is easy in solitude to live after... | |
 | 1903 - 496 pages
...will be desired, for these foods are so satisfying and the appetite is good. — Vegetarian Magazine. "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 prefect sweetness the... | |
 | Sherwin Cody - 1903 - 476 pages
...secondary testimony. What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life,...the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live aftet our own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 460 pages
...secondary testimony. 'What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. j This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life,...know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easyj in the world to live after the world's opinion ; j \ it is easy in solitude to live after our... | |
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