 | Voice, J. E. - 1883 - 212 pages
...be good or bad,honie influences will,as a rule, fan them into activity. Character, independence of. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live alter our own. But the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 356 pages
...harder because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence... | |
 | Esther J. Trimble Lippincott - 1884 - 536 pages
...your own mind. *»»»#»»» What I must do is all that concerns me, not what people think. . . . It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence... | |
 | 1884 - 750 pages
...of his own superiority, whether imaginary or real, without interrupting others in the same felicity. 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 sereneness,... | |
 | William Swinton - 1885 - 624 pages
...It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own : but the great man is he who in the midst of...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. The only way to have a friend is to be one. You shall not come nearer to a man by getting into his... | |
 | William Swinton - 1885 - 620 pages
...which flashes across his mind from within, more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own : but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence... | |
 | 1886 - 216 pages
...It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. EMERSON. Man should dare all things that he knowr. are right, And fear to do no act save what is wrong... | |
 | 1886 - 204 pages
...from the evil. — John xvii. 15. What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence... | |
 | 1887 - 460 pages
...there is among so many of losing all self-reliance in matters of study. The great student no less than the great man is "he who in the midst of the crowd...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." Discussion from day to day with one's fellowstudents of the subjects under consideration is broadening... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1887 - 222 pages
...exciting things happened,' be assured that you are in a good way."1 " The great man," says Emerson, " is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the serenity of solitude." And he closes his Conduct of Life with a striking allegory. The young mortal... | |
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It is easy' in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. 
