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. Essays - Página 54por Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 371 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Maurice York, Rick Spaulding - 2008 - 278 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."10 Emerson now experienced the true hardship of that principle and the peril that lay in... | |
| Kenneth S. Sacks - 2008 - 228 páginas
...and not its result, defines the individual. Emerson describes the self-reliant individual as someone "who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude" (p. 57). This is achieved by trusting completely in one's instincts: "What is the aboriginal Self,... | |
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