...logo Reg. US Pat. & TM Off. First Printing: May 2000 1098765 Printed in the United States of America What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. — Ralph Waldo Emerson PROROGUE Grief is a white-hot molten anguish that shatters a man's heart, then...

...Emerson discusses in his famous essay, "Self-Reliance." Few and mean as my gifts may be, I actually am, and do not need for my own assurance or the assurance...whole distinction between greatness and meanness. Of course Emerson's essays are no longer taught in schools. They've been replaced by pamphlets with...

...Emerson discusses in his famous essay, "Self-Reliance." Few and mean as my gifts may be, I actually am, and do not need for my own assurance or the assurance of my fellows, any secondary testimony What \ must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual...

...the courage to say so publicly when it counted?) * What I must do is all that concerns me, not what people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual...whole distinction between greatness and meanness. * We pass for what we are. Character teaches above our wills. Men imagine that they communicate their...

...Chancellor represent Emerson's philosophy of self-reliant self containment in which he states: "What 1 must do is all that concerns me. not what the people think" 1Emerson 1511. lf Miss Birdseye's personal mission to those in bondage has long since past, still,...

...societies may delight the unthinking and the gay, but solitude is the best nurse of wisdom. ANONYMOUS What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the...meanness. It is the harder because you will always End those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to...

...will. The rest are herds; he uses; they are used. He is the Maker; they are the made. -Emerson 339) What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the...people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder...

...performance, of his cogito. In his eighth paragraph he writes: "Few and mean as my gifts may be, I actually am, and do not need for my own assurance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony." Earlier in the paragraph he had said: "My life is for itself and not for a spectacle. ... I ask primary...

...under the inkwell—some quotation or idea he had scribbled down." The quotation is from Emerson: " 'What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.' Emerson, of course. Emerson had said so many things he had taken unto himself." Mark continues to think...

...right or proper to conduct oneself is explained in terms of how it is best for a human being to be."'s "What I must do, is all that concerns me, not what the people think" (W 2: 31). Underneath (or above) venial distractions and self-divisions is the assumption of a core...