 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
 | Constance M. Whishaw - 1908 - 402 pages
...CHARLES KINGSLEY. " WHAT I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule ... is harder, because you will always find those who think...they know what is your duty better than you know it." EMERSON. 166 public ©pinion JUNE 15 " IT is not the many who reform the world ; but the few who rise... | |
 | William Alexander Cocke - 1908 - 536 pages
...for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both. — Horace Mann. 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 world, keeps with perfect sweetness the... | |
 | Stanton Coit - 1908 - 502 pages
...professing to believe what one does not believe. Or in this perfectly poised utterance of Emerson : — 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... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 772 pages
...we may have.— Byron. Through the wide world he only is alone who Uves not for another. — Rogers. ou must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece ; but it is easier to suppress the yonr own ; but the great man is he who, in the midst of the crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 788 pages
...may have. — Byron. Through the wide world he only is alone who lives not for another. — Rogers. B. Dickerson co. »fter your own ; but the great man is he who, in the midst of the crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1912 - 314 pages
...secondary testimony. 9. 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 30 greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1910 - 544 pages
...sir, in your modest attempt. Remember this, however, that the greatest reason is always the truest. You will always find those who think they know what is your duty far better than you know it yourself, so go to the Sunday School if they bid you; there 'sa good boy.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 196 pages
...bitter. Spiritual Laws. w HAT I must do, is all that concerns me; not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life,...those who think they know what is your duty better Selftrust GreatInde pend The World Spirit than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the... | |
 | Alma Blount, Clark Sutherland Northup - 1911 - 292 pages
...mountains.—IRVING. 28. I think they are trying to outwit Nature, who is sure to be cunninger than they. 29. 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 independence... | |
 | 1926 - 372 pages
...that self-reliance which Emerson described as the essence of greatness: "It is easy," says Emerson, "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 independence... | |
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