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. Select Essays and Poems - Página 35por Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1898 - 120 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Sura College of Competition - 2004 - 116 páginas
...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;...easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great person is one who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.... | |
| Mary A. Mann - 2004 - 338 páginas
...self-knowledge, self- control: These three alone lead life to sovereign power. Ralph Waldo Emerson. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion;...is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the greatest are those who, in the midst of the crowd keep with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.... | |
| John L. Bowman - 2004 - 371 páginas
...become individuals with the famous words, "It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion... but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude".52 He progresses from independence to self-reliance with the words, "It is only as a man... | |
| Naoko Saito - 2005 - 238 páginas
...responsibility of one's own counter-claim. This may well remind us of the following passage in Emerson: It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion;...crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.15 With Emerson, Dewey presents a middle path by overcoming the dichotomous choice of either... | |
| M. William Phelps - 2005 - 516 páginas
.... . . 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;...crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance (1841) Friday, October 3, 1997, had been a hectic... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2005 - 69 páginas
...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;...crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your... | |
| Bill Schneider - 2005 - 274 páginas
...is easy in the world to live after the world's opinions. 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." "Ben, I think you're an old soul." He kissed her gently on the forehead. "I feel as if I've... | |
| Harold Kaplan - 336 páginas
...beyond his substantial choices and their results. These are the voices which we hear in solitude . . . the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.36 34. "Self-Reliance," Writings, p. 148. Surely this is a philosophy to support the franchise.... | |
| Sango Mbella - 2005 - 304 páginas
...live by the opinion of the world. It is very easy in solitude to be self-centered. But the finished man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. -Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882) Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do... | |
| Robert T. Eberwein - 2005 - 252 páginas
...(Matt Damon) Saving Private Ryan. Courtesy: Photofest and approved of as someone of self-reliance, who, "in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude."10 The references to the first great American man of letters only serve to underscore Spielberg... | |
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