 | John Morley - 1903 - 692 pages
...clamorous hopes and half-blind mysterious instincts of the nations. CHAPTER III BOOK vn. THE OCTAGON IT ii 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... | |
 | John Morley - 1903 - 696 pages
...clamorous hopes and half-blind mysterious instincts of the nations. \ BOOK VII. CHAPTER III THE OCTAGON IT is easy in the world to live after the -world's opinion ; it L= e*sr in solitude to live after our own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps... | |
 | Charles B. Guignon - 1999 - 350 pages
...what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness....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... | |
 | Diane Ravitch - 2000 - 662 pages
...what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness....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... | |
 | Irene Taviss Thomson - 2000 - 172 pages
...nonconformity. "Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist," says Emerson ([1841] 1941: 123). He continues: "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... | |
 | Michiko Yusa - 2002 - 516 pages
...awareness. He quotes a line from Emerson that perfectly captures the essence of Rousseau's courage: "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... | |
 | graf Leo Tolstoy - 2002 - 352 pages
...is hard to do, because you will always find those who think they know your duty better than you do. 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... | |
 | Robert Menschel - 2002 - 256 pages
...essay "Self-Reliance." Later in the essay, Emerson came back to the point and broadened the message: "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... | |
 | Astrid Fitzgerald - 2001 - 390 pages
...this is the best means of detaching oneself from this ceaseless flow of suggestions. —Paul B run ton 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... | |
 | Richard Alan Krieger - 2007 - 344 pages
...duty, and leave the rest to heaven." — Pierre Corneille "Every man's task is his life preserver." — "You will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it." — Emerson "It is better to do your duty, however imperfectly, than to assume the duties of another... | |
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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. 
