 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
 | Martin H. Manser - 2001 - 524 pages
...fellows. Even the Savior is described as reaching mankind through the wilderness. Henry Havelock Ellis 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... | |
 | Paul Kropp - 2007 - 290 pages
...any secondary testimony What \ 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. Of course Emerson's essays are no longer taught in schools. They've been replaced by pamphlets with... | |
 | Richard Alan Krieger - 2007 - 344 pages
...duty, and leave the rest to heaven." — Pierre Corneille "Every man's task is his life preserver." — "You will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it." — Emerson "It is better to do your duty, however imperfectly, than to assume the duties of another... | |
 | Victor K. Pryles - 2002 - 204 pages
...publicly when it counted?) * What I must do is all that concerns me, not what people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life,...whole distinction between greatness and meanness. * We pass for what we are. Character teaches above our wills. Men imagine that they communicate their... | |
 | 2003 - 136 pages
...must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction...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... | |
 | 156 pages
...I must do is all that concerns me, not what people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction...what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man... | |
 | Helen Granat - 2003 - 302 pages
...of wisdom. ANONYMOUS What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life,...meanness. It is the harder because you will always End those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to... | |
 | John L. Bowman - 2004 - 371 pages
...individualism. and authority of the soul".52 He rails against the coercive and collective group when he writes "you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it," and "...do not tell me. ..of my obligations to put all poor men in good situations".52 He lashed out... | |
 | Ephraim Langdon Frothingham, Arthur Lincoln Frothingham - 1864 - 504 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... | |
 | 1875 - 570 pages
...the last two years, wai her most prominent characteristic. Even strangers to her felt its force. '' 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... | |
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