 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.  Select Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Page 72by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1907 - 245 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1897 - 268 pages
...chosen plain food for health ? " 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...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." ii. 55. 4. Like... | |
 | H. W. Smith - 1897 - 366 pages
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 | Martha B. Mosher - 1898 - 250 pages
...think they know another's duty better than he knows it himself. Our great philosopher has said : " It is easy in the world to live after the world's...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." A man's possessions... | |
 | 1898 - 404 pages
...teachers of the West taught substantially the philosophy that Emerson voices in the following words: "It is easy in the world to live after the world's...solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he that in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." In the transition... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1898 - 144 pages
...This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder,...they know what is your duty better than you know it. JJt is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our... | |
 | James N. Patrick - 1898 - 238 pages
...to stand for the real, logical subject which follows the verb ; as, It is a duty to love humanity. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion. It is a pity that he has so much learning, or that he has not a great deal more. 2. It is used as an impersonal... | |
 | 1899 - 136 pages
...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...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, Life only avails,... | |
 | Victor Charbonnel - 1899 - 386 pages
...This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder,...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." Action has... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899 - 380 pages
...think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder,...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. The objection... | |
 | North Carolina Bar Association - 1920 - 334 pages
...hours to sleep, in laws grave study six, Four spent in prayer, the rest on nature fix." Emerson says: "It is easy in the world to live after the world's...to live after our own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." With all his freedom... | |
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