 | Sir John Lubbock - 1891 - 228 pages
...their thrones ; they alone with him alone. " The great man," he elsewhere says, " is 1 Epictetus. he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the serenity of solitude." We may all, if we will, secure peace of mind for ourselves. " Men seek retreats,"... | |
 | John Rogers Rees - 1892 - 192 pages
...looking into them, he is immediately in perfect tranquility." — MARCUS AURELIUS. "The great man is he who, in the midst of the crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." — EMERSON. t " So happily am I situated, that I enjoy all the charms of rural seclusion, yet retain... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 126 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, spread your table like... | |
 | Rev. James Wood - 1893 - 694 pages
...man has more of human nature than 25 other men organised in him. Theodore Parker, The great man is he Emerson. The great mass of people have eyes and ears, but not much more, especially little power of... | |
 | 1908 - 324 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." " No man," says Shelley, " has a right to do an evil thing that good may come Politics are only sound... | |
 | Boston (Mass.). City Council - 1893 - 76 pages
...given, while quite apposite to the individuality we are attempting to describe, — "the great man is he who, in the midst of the crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the serenity of solitude." That he of whom we are now speaking should have kept the serenity of solitude,... | |
 | 1894 - 596 pages
...exactly modeled after an eastern school, might read the following before they do any more ranting: "The objection to conforming to usages that have become...scatters your force. It loses your time and blurs your character. ' ' Some of the ardent admirers and supporters of the Denver Associate Charities, may... | |
 | Mary Jane Chisholm Foster - 1894 - 252 pages
...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." The Bible narrative of Sunday was Matt, ii, 1-12. Monday we talked of the star — explained that it guided... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - 1894 - 604 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. — Emerson. The man is best served who has no occasion to put the hands of others at the end of his... | |
 | Kansas State Teachers College of Emporia - 1898 - 198 pages
...that sends them home. The mind aims, the body fires." — NEWELL DWIGHT HILLIS. "A great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the serenity of solitude. Happy is he who has a sanctuary in his own soul. He who is virtuous is wise;... | |
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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. 
