 | 1875 - 546 pages
...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 of solitude. FORTITUDE. — When we read we fancy we could be martyrs; when we come to act wo cannot boar a provoking... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 470 pages
...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...If you maintain a dead church, contribute to a dead Bible-society, vote with a great party either for the government or against it,1 spread your table... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1876 - 768 pages
...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 of solitude. RW EMERSON. Be not diverted from your duty by any idle reflections the silly world may make upon you,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 300 pages
...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 sweetness the independence of solitnde. The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is, that it 'scatters... | |
 | Maxims - 1876 - 340 pages
...after the world's opinions ; 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 his character. — Emerson. All ceremonies are in themselves very silly things, but yet a man should... | |
 | Mrs. G. H. Taylor - 1877 - 144 pages
...live above 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 of Solitude. Eraerson. Shallow men believe in luck, strong men in cause and effect. When bad men combine, the good... | |
 | 1878 - 300 pages
...forth, it will abrogate the old law or school in which it stands, before the law of its own mind. . . . The objection to conforming to usages that have become...time, and blurs the impression of your character. But do your own work, and you shall reinforce yourself. — RW Emerson; American. 19th cent. AC FEAR... | |
 | 1879 - 460 pages
...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." We have seen how the first physical speculations, the utter reliance on sensation, had been thrust... | |
 | 1921 - 744 pages
...all that concerns me, not what people think. A man should not appeal by his actions to public favor. The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your force. Suggestion 18. Show that the first assertion of (a) is a dangerous doctrine. Reproduce Emerson's censure... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1880 - 772 pages
...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 of solitude. RW EMERSON. Be not diverted from your duty by any idle reflections the silly world may make upon you,... | |
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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. 
