 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 30by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 385 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1900 - 700 pages
...may misunderstand him, he cares not, — so much the worse for the reader. He lived by his own text: "What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think." "We cannot spend the day in explanation." It is this characteristic of Emerson that has gained for... | |
 | Carol J. Singley - 2003 - 316 pages
...brother, when my genius calls me"; "Expect me not to show cause why I seek or why 1 exclude company"; "What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think."49 Emerson's own statements on nature's ontology, as his readers know, provide a counterbalance... | |
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