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" 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: First Series - Página 47
por Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1852 - 333 páginas
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The Pleasures of Life

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,"...
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The Message of Man: A Book of Ethical Scriptures Gathered from Many Sources ...

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...
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The Unitarian, Volume 11

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...
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Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Volume 13

Charles Dudley Warner - 1897 - 482 páginas
...distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it....with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. HISTORY CIVIL and natural history, the history of art and of literature, must be explained from individual...
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Poems and Essays

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...
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Dictionary of Quotations: (English)

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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American Literature

Katharine Lee Bates - 1897 - 438 páginas
...peculiarly my work." From this time on Emerson realized in himself his definition of a great man, " who in the midst of the crowd keeps, with perfect sweetness, the independence of solitude." Among the clamorous reforms and philanthropies of the day, he was often reproached with indifference...
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Child Culture in the Home: A Book for Mothers

Martha B. Mosher - 1898 - 250 páginas
...think they know another's duty better than he knows it himself. Our great philosopher has said : " It is easy in the world to live after the world's...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." A man's possessions should be rooted in himself to have real value, then no matter how often he is...
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Select Essays and Poems

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1898 - 144 páginas
...because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. JJt is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion...crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitudej 10. The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is, that it scatters...
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Mind, Volume 2

1898 - 404 páginas
...teachers of the West taught substantially the philosophy that Emerson voices in the following words: "It is easy in the world to live after the world's...solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he that in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." In the transition...
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