 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
 | Harriet Theresa Comstock - 1921 - 308 pages
...to be safe from intrusion." Raymond promised, and so they set out on the Sun Road. CHAPTER XVII "// is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to lice after our own." THE trouble with the Sun Road is this: one is apt to be blinded by the glare.... | |
 | William Pierson Merrill - 1922 - 168 pages
...his life of "freedom inserting itself within necessity and turning it to its profit," when he said, "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, preserves with perfect sweetness... | |
 | Jesse Lee Bennett - 1925 - 374 pages
...institutions. 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...harder, because you will always find those who think that they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 398 pages
...meanness. It is the harder because you will ways find those who think they know what is your duty :tter than you know it. It is easy in the world to live ter the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after ir own ; but the preat man is he who... | |
 | Howard Vincent O'Brien - 1928 - 296 pages
...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...they know what is your duty better than you know it." What a splendid piece of Catholic propaganda "Elmer Gantry" is! If only in caricature, it presents... | |
 | David Stouck - 1991 - 260 pages
...to fulfilment and self-respect: 'Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist' (891). Though a man 'will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it/ one must inevitably follow the call of one's convictions, for 'What I must do is all that concerns... | |
 | Philip Leroy Culbertson - 1992 - 188 pages
...is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. . . .You will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it." To those who seek change, courage is available within the community of changing men, and through reliance... | |
 | 1909 - 498 pages
...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...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 independence... | |
 | 1908 - 432 pages
...Y\,rHAT 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...meanness. It is the harder because you will always And those who think they know what is your duty, better than you know it. It is easy in the world to... | |
 | Martin H. Manser - 2001 - 524 pages
...fellows. Even the Savior is described as reaching mankind through the wilderness. Henry Havelock Ellis 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 independence... | |
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