 | Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - 1896 - 604 pages
...this way, it ought not to be discussed at all. He would have us each independent; and yet he says, "The great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with ptrfect sweetness the independence of solitude." "Perfect sweetness" never means sourness, bigotry... | |
 | Kenneth Sacks - 2003 - 426 pages
...is how he understood it in his most famous essay, "Self-Reliance," composed in the summer of 1839: "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... | |
 | 2003 - 136 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 your own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence... | |
 | Samuel Beckett - 1976 - 312 pages
...ignorance .. . imitation is suicide." In Cleveland, a girl surprised her classmates by quoting perfectly: "The great man is he who in the midst of the crowd...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." Individualism is, of course, uneasy with the notion of emulation. And Emerson himself was ambivalent.... | |
 | 156 pages
...must do what we are motivated to do, not what others think we should do. "It is easy," Emerson says, "to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own." What's difficult is to keep the independence of solitude in the midst of the crowd. The problem... | |
 | Maida Herman Solomon - 2004 - 146 pages
...Published by Old Heidelberg Press 6020-A Adeline, Oakland, CA 94608 regentpress@mindspring.com ... 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... the independence of solitude.... | |
 | Sura College of Competition - 2004 - 116 pages
...work is measured. - Paul C. Packe Great effort springs naturally from a great attitude. - Pat Riley 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... | |
 | Mary A. Mann - 2004 - 338 pages
...self-knowledge, self- control: These three alone lead life to sovereign power. Ralph Waldo Emerson. 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 greatest are those who, in the midst of the crowd keep with perfect sweetness the... | |
 | Yossef Schwartz, Volkhard Krech - 2004 - 590 pages
...self who - in traditional Puritan manner - is existentially alone and evolves out of this loneliness. "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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2004 - 256 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... | |
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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. 
