 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.  Eliza Cook's journal - Page 269Full view - About this book
 | 1895 - 344 pages
...with others, and yet to follow our own consciences ; to unite social deference and selfdominion. 19. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after one's own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the... | |
 | 1896 - 234 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... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1897 - 482 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... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | 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...opinion; it is easy in 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1898 - 144 pages
...because you will always find those who think 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 own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899 - 380 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... | |
 | Victor Charbonnel - 1899 - 386 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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