 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
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...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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