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
| Maturin Murray Ballou - 1894 - 604 páginas
...whatever she makes us lose, as long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence. — POJK. 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 sweetness the... | |
| Kansas State Teachers College of Emporia - 1898 - 198 páginas
...body is the bow 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;... | |
| Sir John Lubbock - 1894 - 358 páginas
...Gods still sitting on their thrones ; they alone with him alone. "The great man," he elsewhere says, "is 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,"... | |
| Sir John Lubbock - 1893 - 506 páginas
...on their thrones ; they alone with him alone. " The great man," he elsewhere says, " is 1 Emctetus. 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,"... | |
| 1895 - 344 páginas
...with others, and yet to follow our own consciences ; to unite social deference and selfdominion. 19. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after one's own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the... | |
| Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - 1896 - 604 páginas
...this way, it ought not to be discussed at all. He would have us each independent; and yet he says, "The great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with ptrfect sweetness the independence of solitude." "Perfect sweetness" never means sourness, bigotry... | |
| Charles Dudley Warner - 1897 - 482 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. HISTORY CIVIL and natural history, the history of art and of literature, must be explained from individual... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1897 - 268 páginas
...chosen plain food for health ? " 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." ii. 55. 4. Like George Nidiver, Courage, vii, 261. Head the ballad. 6. " If it were possible to live... | |
| H. W. Smith - 1897 - 366 páginas
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| Philip Hugh Dalbiac - 1897 - 526 páginas
...Young Friend. " The great end of life is not knowledge, but action." HUXLEY. Technical Education. " The great man is he who in the midst of the crowd...perfect sweetness, the independence of solitude." EMERSON. Self-Reliancc. " The great mind knows the power of gentleness, Only tries force because persuasion... | |
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