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" 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... "
Essays, orations and lectures - Page 30
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 385 pages
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Wisdom Through the Ages

Helen Granat - 2003 - 302 pages
...societies may delight the unthinking and the gay, but solitude is the best nurse of wisdom. ANONYMOUS What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the...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...
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Emerson As Spiritual Guide: A Companion to Emerson's Essays for Personal ...

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...
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Aspire to Something Higher: A Pocket Book of Inspired Thoughts

2003 - 136 pages
...will. The rest are herds; he uses; they are used. He is the Maker; they are the made. -Emerson 339) What I 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 between greatness and meanness. It is the harder...
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Writing for Her Life: The Novelist Mildred Walker

Ripley S. Hugo - 2003 - 328 pages
...under the inkwell—some quotation or idea he had scribbled down." The quotation is from Emerson: " 'What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.' Emerson, of course. Emerson had said so many things he had taken unto himself." Mark continues to think...
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Authority and Reform: Religious and Educational Discourses in Nineteenth ...

Mark G. Vásquez - 2003 - 424 pages
...must be a nonconformist"; "Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule"; "What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think"; "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds"; "I suppose no man can violate his nature";...
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Emerson

Lawrence Buell - 2004 - 420 pages
...right or proper to conduct oneself is explained in terms of how it is best for a human being to be."'s "What I must do, is all that concerns me, not what the people think" (W 2: 31). Underneath (or above) venial distractions and self-divisions is the assumption of a core...
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Musings of a Thelemite

Frater Da'Neos - 2003 - 162 pages
...If that indeed happens to be the case, I shouldn't be very much bothered, for as Emerson has said, "What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think."3 By the time I actually have a published copy of this book I will most likely disagree with...
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Happiness Paradox

Ziyad Marar - 2003 - 216 pages
...and the search for basic inner truths that are so fundamental to the modern American self concept. 'What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.''4 Break away from the erosion of our 'self trust', he urges, from consistency, 'the hobgoblin...
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10 Quotes: Inspire and Motivate

Sura College of Competition - 2004 - 116 pages
...one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded! - Ralph Waldo Emerson What I 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 between greatness and meanness. It is the harder,...
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Socialism in America

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...
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