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
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 352 páginas
...life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder because you will always find those who think they know what is...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. - x The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your force.... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 350 páginas
...life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder because you will always find those who think they know what is...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.... | |
| Voice, J. E. - 1883 - 212 páginas
...be good or bad,honie influences will,as a rule, fan them into activity. Character, independence of. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live alter our own. But the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the... | |
| Esther J. Trimble Lippincott - 1884 - 536 páginas
...your own mind. *»»»#»»» What I must do is all that concerns me, not what people think. . . . It is easy in the world to live after the world's...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. SYLLABUS. No period was ever marked with such progress as the last fifty years. A nation's literature... | |
| 1884 - 750 páginas
...of his own superiority, whether imaginary or real, without interrupting others in the same felicity. 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 sereneness,... | |
| 1886 - 204 páginas
...from the evil. — John xvii. 15. What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think It is easy in the world to live after the world's...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. EMERSON. Man should dare all things that he knows are right, And fear to do no act save what is wrong... | |
| 1887 - 460 páginas
...there is among so many of losing all self-reliance in matters of study. The great student no less than the great man is "he who in the midst of the crowd...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." Discussion from day to day with one's fellowstudents of the subjects under consideration is broadening... | |
| Sir John Lubbock - 1887 - 222 páginas
...exciting things happened,' be assured that you are in a good way."1 " The great man," says Emerson, " is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the serenity of solitude." And he closes his Conduct of Life with a striking allegory. The young mortal... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 408 páginas
...life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they : know what...live after our own ; but the great man is he who in / I ^ £~ the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect ! f sweetness the independence of solitude, f The... | |
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