 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
 | 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,...they know what is your duty better than you know it. Ht is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 842 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,...whole distinction between greatness and meanness. ;Jt is the harder because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than... | |
 | John Morley - 1903 - 696 pages
...clamorous hopes and half-blind mysterious instincts of the nations. \ BOOK VII. CHAPTER III THE OCTAGON IT is easy in the world to live after the -world's opinion ; it L= e*sr in solitude to live after our own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps... | |
 | Henry Clay Trumbull - 1903 - 368 pages
...show thyself A MAN thus, you must, indeed, be strong. It is hard work to do right independently. " It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion," says Emerson; "it is easy in solitude to live after our own, but the great man is he who, in the midst... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1905 - 70 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,...because you will always find those who think they 10 know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to liyg.jaftfir the. world... | |
 | 1905 - 352 pages
...seek the good." 30 "If necessity breeds no heroism, the people are not worth their own redemption." 31 "It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it if easy in solitude to live after our own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1906 - 200 pages
...of personal influence it is impossible to fix, as persons are organs of moral or supernatural force. will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. A CULTIVATED man .... hates what he has if he see that it is accidental — came to him by inheritance,... | |
 | Albert Le Roy Bartlett, Howard Lee McBain - 1906 - 360 pages
...coming of spring. 7. There are three feet in every yard. 8. 'Tis not in mortals to command success. 9. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion. 10. There was a sound of revelry by night. 11. It is not necessary to light a candle to see the sun.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1907 - 270 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, may serve for the whole distinction 15 between greatness and meanness. It is the harder because you will always find those who think they... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1908 - 324 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,...distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the hardes, ; because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you... | |
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