 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...  Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Page 49by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876Full view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 300 pages
...testimony. 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...to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitnde to live after our own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect... | |
 | Mrs. G. H. Taylor - 1877 - 144 pages
...height of the hill. Phelps. What I must do, is all that concerns me, and not what other people think. You will always find those who think they know what...is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in solitude to live above the world's opinion. It is easy in solitude to live after your own. But the... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1880 - 772 pages
...I must do is all that concerns me, and not what the people think. This rule, equally as arduous in your own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence... | |
 | Voice, J. E. - 1883 - 212 pages
...be good or bad,honie influences will,as a rule, fan them into activity. Character, independence of. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live alter our own. But the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the... | |
 | 1884 - 750 pages
...of his own superiority, whether imaginary or real, without interrupting others in the same felicity. IT is easy, in the world, to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy, in solitude, to live after your own ; but the great man is he who, in the midst of the crowd, keeps, with perfect sereneness,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1894 - 334 pages
...testimony. 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...always find those who think they know what is your duly better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - 1894 - 604 pages
...whatever she makes us lose, as long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence. — POJK. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after your own ; but the great man is he who, in the midst of the crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1898 - 144 pages
...9. 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...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... | |
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